“Say a woman — for some egalitarian and very foolish reason, declines to have her dinner date walk her back to her car in some urban center after dark. Let us say she is raped and murdered. According to what RHE [Rachel Held Evans] says, my response is going to be some variant of ‘served her right.’ Now you would have to be a fool not to see the connection between her refusal of an escort and what happened to her, but you would also have to be pretty vile to say that walking to your car deserves the penalty of rape and murder. You would also have to be pretty high up among Obama’s advisers to falsely accuse someone of being that vile.
One consequence of rejecting the protection of good men is that you are opening yourself up to the predations of bad men. I fully acknowledge that this is not what such women > think they are doing. They think they are rejecting the patriarchy, or some other icky thing, but when they have walked away from the protections of fathers and brothers, what it amounts to is a tacit (implicit, in principle, not overt) acceptance of the propriety of rape.”1 – Doug Wilson
Want More Context?
Here are some links to other blogs and podcasts dealing with this and other issues in more depth:
https://youtu.be/l1Qiqk1-IGM?si=8vRM5QAOK1NFULub
Emilie: https://youtu.be/jTzgJlFuuZ0?si=1WxspaTpaVigna7U
Jade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH8iiWAjNdM
Kristie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZHieYZp_7o
Bekka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYMYZqqYPNU
Tony, Kalina, and Kallie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-L5vGvrhjs
Anonymous Woman and Theresa Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zSqY_1hYXg
Hayley McCord and Anonymous Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgyEQAo6K2Q
Holly Rench and Kathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvbw967Z-dw
Anonymous Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpSguas8gDw
https://www.dennyburk.com/the-serrated-edge-of-doug-wilson/
https://theocast.org/church-discernment-and-purity-culture/
https://bredenhof.ca/2023/07/03/doug-wilson-the-bad/
https://bredenhof.ca/2023/07/10/doug-wilson-the-ugly/
https://rachelgreenmiller.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/a-question-for-wilson-fans/
Footnotes
Footnotes
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https://web.archive.org/web/20241008033133/https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/110222.html The quote is from 2016, but Doug has held this view since at least 1997: “Women inescapably need godly masculine protection against ungodly masculine harassment; women who refuse protection from their fathers and husbands must seek it from the police. But women who genuinely insist on ‘no masculine protection’ are really women who tacitly agree on the propriety of rape” (Douglas Wilson, Her Hand in Marriage: Biblical Courtship in the Modern World, Canon Press, 1997, loc. 90, Kindle Edition). ↩