The #MeToo Reckoning Quotes

“Rape culture mandates that women and men have very different sexual responsibilities. The assumption is that it’s normal for men to rape women, which means that victims are to blame. By her action (or inaction) a woman creates an opening that allows a man to do what’s perfectly natural for him to do—assault her.”
― Ruth Everhart, The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church's Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct

“This is the simplest indicator of rape culture—that, given the opportunity, it is considered normal for men to rape women.”
― Ruth Everhart, The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church's Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct

“More precisely, what David did with Bathsheba is an abuse of his power. David exploited the enormous power differential that existed between men and women in general, and between himself and any vassal, in order to have sex with a particular woman. The word for that crime is RAPE.”
― Ruth Everhart, The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church's Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct

“I learned that when church courts are modeled on civil courts, they treat offenses as violations of rules rather than betrayal of relationships.”
― Ruth Everhart, The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church's Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct

“The remedy to being lukewarm is to add some heat: reproof and discipline.”
― Ruth Everhart, The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church's Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct

“Let’s hope that churches lose the right things: an addiction to cultural power and authority, a self-righteous clamp on the idol of sexual purity, an attachment to secrecy and silence as effective means of control.”
― Ruth Everhart, The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church's Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct

“In other words, sexism is a “logical” system springing from the belief that males should be dominant, whereas misogyny is the heat and emotion that powers this thinking, and creates backlash when it is opposed. Manne summarizes: “Sexism is scientific; misogyny is moralistic.”
― Ruth Everhart, The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church's Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct

“Let me be clear about another thing: I am not a liberal feminist. I am a radical feminist. Which is to say, it’s not enough that individual women can thrive in a patriarchal culture. As long as women as a group are treated as less than men, it doesn’t matter that individual women can experience success. Inequality is not what God intends for human society.”
― Ruth Everhart, The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church's Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct