{"id":1107,"date":"2013-10-31T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/10\/how-religion-helps-men-evade-personal-responsibility.html"},"modified":"2013-10-31T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T08:52:00","slug":"how-religion-helps-men-evade-personal-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/10\/how-religion-helps-men-evade-personal-responsibility.html","title":{"rendered":"How Religion Helps Men Evade Personal Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
I posted\u00a0at XX Factor about this website\u00a0<\/a>where women set out to shame \u201chomewreckers\u201d, i.e. women who slept with or even \u201cstole\u201d boyfriends or husbands who presumably had a monogamous commitment to another woman. It\u2019s a brief post that doesn\u2019t mention the blog of the woman\u2014titled\u00a0I\u2019m In Love With A Serial Cheate<\/a>r\u2014who started this shaming site, but I ended up reading many blog posts from it because, to be frank, the experience of being a woman who has completely absconded any personal dignity and is so devoted to even the most grotesque sexism is really alien to me. I began to almost feel sorry for the blogger, whose shitbag of a husband is clearly enjoying the hell out of having his wife and his mistress fight relentlessly over him. The only thing he has to do for the pleasure is occasionally pretend to be mildly sorry, but honestly not even that, because the blogger is 100% clear that she believes that he has no choice but to fuck a woman who offers. It\u2019s mind-boggling and distressing to realize how many women have completely bought into the notion that a man\u2019s only as good as his options.<\/span><\/div>\n
But what I didn\u2019t really touch on in the Slate post is the role religion plays in all this. The bloggerprinted a letter from a reader\u00a0<\/a>that really shows how religious beliefs that men are leaders and women are submissive helpmeets do not, in fact, encourage male responsibility. In fact, they do they opposite. Here\u2019s an excerpt from the letter, titled \u201cOpen Letter To The Homewrecker\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n
Read the rest here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted\u00a0at XX Factor about this website\u00a0where women set out to shame \u201chomewreckers\u201d, i.e. women who slept with or even \u201cstole\u201d boyfriends or husbands who presumably had a monogamous commitment to another woman. 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