Religion Fucks Over Young Women

We should just admit this.

Jessica Grose over at The New York Times does a lot of work on the mass exodus from conventional religion. I have embedded her stuff a few times. I think she is supposed to be a “parenting” columnist, and I wouldn’t mind see her write more about, uh, parenting, but most of her stuff is pretty good. Here is a newer one.

Right up top in this article, we get into it:

But even surrounded by believers as a college student, Draut began to question some of the values she was brought up with. Specifically, she took issue “with the sexism, with the purity culture, with being boxed in as a woman.” She couldn’t stomach the notion that “you only have these specific roles of childbearing, taking care of the children, cooking and being submissive to your husband,” she told me. “That was also around the time that Donald Trump was elected president,” she added. “So I didn’t want to associate with that kind of evangelicalism.”

Lot of stuff going on in that paragraph, eh? Crowded house. Definitely I would say religion boxes you in as a woman. That’s kinda the whole thing with Harrison Butker. He was speaking to the right audience because it was a religious one, ya know? But he said the wrong thing for the moment.

The elephant in this discussion, of course, is: