Debunking the Bad Rap Against Evangelical Men

Finding #3: Wives of committed evangelical men are happier  

Given the stats I just shared, it makes perfect sense that wives of committed evangelical men are happier in key areas of their marriage relationship than their secular counterparts. In fact, Pearcey notes that “fully 73% of wives who hold conservative gender values and attend religious services regularly with their husbands have high-quality marriages.” (p.39) 

And among highly religious couples, wives are twice as likely as their secular peers to express satisfaction with their sexual relationship. (p.44) 

Yet if these same wives are sitting down to watch the news or listen to a talk show with their men, they’re in for a shock. Citing a media researcher who conducted a content analysis of more than 2,000 media portrayals of men, Pearcey reported that “more than 75 percent of all media representations of men portrayed them as “villains, aggressors, perverts, and philanderers.” (p.20) 

 There’s a colossal disconnect between media portrayals of men and the committed, loving, reality that men are living out every day on sports fields, family rooms, and bedrooms.