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“I don’t ever want to be in a position of shaming the evangelical community for having shamed me. The point is that we must all move past shaming.”

Holy false equivalency, Batman!

“There is this idea that you’re accountable to everybody for your sexual behavior, for your dating behavior, for everything, especially as a woman. If you were not telling something, it was because you had sin in your life. You don’t own anything, even your thoughts, and it matters more how the culture and the community thinks about your thought than what the thought itself is.”

“Generally speaking, purity culture excuses male sexuality and amplifies female sexuality, and it shames consensual sexual activity and silences non consensual sexual activity”

I get frustrated with authors who give lip service to supporting survivors who have no need for ‘redeemed’ bible verses interpretation (“For some of those I’ve spoken with, [the bible] is the literature of their trauma and I feel no need to redeem it for these individuals”) but then don’t give a fucking ‘if that’s you, skip to [whatever] section to avoid me attempting to defend Paul’ warning!