Sentences with phrase «as abused women»

This authority structure is typically described as a series of «coverings» or «protections» but unfortunately, the effect is often the opposite, as abused women and children find they have no recourse or power, as every decision in their lives must be made by a series of men, many of whom are more invested in protecting the reputation of the ministry than the people in it.

In motherf, Eberle created a body of work that explores the idea of Mother Nature as an abused woman.

Not exact matches

As powerful men across an array of industries have been accused of harassing and abusing women, both parties have had to deal with misconduct allegations in their ranks.

Stories like Dar's are newly resonant as a wide swath of industries are confronting the powerful men who harass and abuse women at work.

When it's so common to write off the hatred and abuse of women as «locker room banter,» of course many women believe that lie, too — that boys are just being boys, that men don't really mean what they say.

«Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

Daniels — an Oscar - nominated writer and director, as well as the co-creator of Empire, a hit series that airs on Fox — reportedly accused Penn of domestic violence while discussing Empire star Terrence Howard's history of physical abuse toward women.

In a statement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, who was also personally named in the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

Kratz resigned as Calumet County District Attorney in 2010 after sending racy text messages to a woman while he was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend for domestic abuse.

But she apparently missed all the cautionary tales of abuse heaped on beauty brands such as SheaMoisture, Dove, L'Oreal's Elvive and more in social media the past year over slights against women of color — either real or highly enhanced by the outrage machine.

Two young women are using the power of social media to warn teenagers about sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of a Montreal tattoo artist who used his boutique as a hangout for troubled girls when he sexually abused them.

This thinking only exacerbates what is becoming more and more a cultural epidemic of men objectifying and abusing women as sexual playthings.

This a staggeringly unhealthy narrative to promote to our children about the way sexuality works, and plays directly into the hands of a rape culture such as the one in which we live: If you are a woman and ever get catcalled, abused, molested, raped or any number of other sexual advances, you are probably at least partially to blame.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

This reminds me of the way the church deals with critical issues today such as women's rights, racism, sexual abuse, sexuality and gender, same - sex marriage, corruption among its leaders, and so on.

So, I ask you, who would be paying for the needs of all the unwanted / neglected / abused children who were born simply as a result of inadequate health care options for women and the criminalization of abortion?

As more and more abused women tell their stories, we must respond with the gospel mandate to care for the suffering and to proclaim a resurrection image, a new household of freedom and justice.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

But as long as I know how important maternal health is to Haiti's future, and as long as I know that women are being abused and raped, as long as I know that girls are being denied life itself through selective abortion, abandonment, and abuse, as long as brave little girls in Afghanistan are being attacked with acid for the crime of going to school, and until being a Christian is synonymous with doing something about these things, you can also call me a feminist.

A Woman's continued cry's for redress, for recognition of her abuse and situation would not have been repeatedly ignored or simply written off as «crazyness»

Following the widespread accusations of rape, harassment and sexual abuse perpetrated by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, actress Alyssa Milano wrote on Twitter, «If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote «Me too» as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.»

I am sorry to vent and in no way taking away from what abused women go through, but looking back, in the name of keeping peace and wanting to do a good job as an educator, I realize now, I have been bullied, mistreated and yes, even abused by the higher ups, while the level of educational quality and my joy of teaching have been robbed by all the PC guidelines that now rule education.

As a woman raised in a very conservative family, I experienced abuses just for being born female.

As we can read through all the comments and related posts, many women have experienced and are experiencing the very same thing: abuse, silencing and not being believed.

It was by way of engaging with a woman taking a «feminist approach» (her words) to the abuse of women in the church using the rape of Tamar and the narrative about Lot asking those that wanted to rape the men to have the women instead as proof texts.

She claimed that in these texts the bible was «condoning abuse of women» and as such, this is what the bible does.

She also says that a random survey of women in Los Angeles in 1986 found that sixty - two per cent had been sexually abused as children.20 The churches have to challenge this abuse and the culture that underlies it.

As women share decision making in marriages, it leads to happier and more stable marriages that experience less abuse (ethics) according to research by Prepare / Enrich.

We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women.»

I have been taught this less by my feminist professional colleagues than by the students who have attended my classes on passes from hospitals or after therapy sessions, in which they are being treated for wounds inflicted by men (and sometimes women) who abused them as children or as adults.

We need to teach on submission and church authority structures in a way that equips women abused by the very leadership to which they were called to submit to boldly live out their gifting as co-heirs with Jesus Christ.

I am learning that I can not teach christian theology constructively unless I am aware that, historically, the church has done much to damage women, Jews, people of color and the whole inhabited earth; and unless, as a christian, I am learning how our doctrine, discipline and worship continue to reflect and contribute to this abuse of power.

As long as most women believed that tradition, they never complained about their beatings, nor dared talk about them openly with other similarly abused womeAs long as most women believed that tradition, they never complained about their beatings, nor dared talk about them openly with other similarly abused womeas most women believed that tradition, they never complained about their beatings, nor dared talk about them openly with other similarly abused women.

No, this one doesn't have to do with gross abuse of women as much as it has to do with football itself — like, the actual ball.

Finally, imagine that you noticed many abuses caused by the belief in witches, such as people giving 10 % of their crops to highly suspect priests to ward off witches, belief in witches and elves being used to deny the pollution you noticed building up in your village and laws being passed controlling how a woman must act while pregnant based on witchcraft.

They speak of church cultures that treated women's bodies as inherently problematic and seductive, that assigned a woman's worth to her sexual purity or procreative prowess, that questioned women's ability to think rationally or make decisions without the leadership of men, that blamed victims of sexual abuse for inviting the abuse or tempting the abuser, that shamed women who did not «joyfully submit» to their husband and find contentment in their roles as helpers and homemakers, and that effectively silenced victims of abuse by telling women and children that reporting the crime would reflect poorly on the church and thus damage the reputation of Christ.

So the point I want to make today is not that all who subscribe to patriarchy are abusive, but that patriarchy in a religious environment, just as in any environment, has a negative effect on the whole community and creates a cultural climate more susceptible to abuse than one characterized by mutuality and shared leadership between men and women.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Until we challenge the status of women as men's servants and subordinates at home and at work, assault, harassment and abuse will continue.

In the wake of the latest Trump revelations, more Christian women are speaking up about sexual exploitation and abuse, but as one writer argued at the Washington Post, «Many men talk like Donald Trump in private.

This language downplays the accusations, as though pastoral abuse of women were just part of Hybels's spiritual journey.

Abusing their trust, global governance agents of change use the fuzzy expression «gender equality» in the developing world allowing it to be understood as a policy enhancing a greater recognition of the inherent equal dignity of the woman, while in fact it hides their own agenda.

Feminism, in reaction to the abuse and misuse of women's bodies as sex objects, has tended to overlook the fact that who we are as women has everything to do with who we are as bodies.

The belief that every single person is precious in God's sight has inspired some Christians to work for social changes such as the abolition of slavery, an end to the exploitation of factory workers, the removal of racial discrimination and apartheid, and the prevention of cruelty to and the sexual abuse of women and children.

Despite the pastoral nature of much feminist theology and careful treatments of specific issues in pastoral care such as abuse or spirituality, there is no book by a single author on pastoral theology from a woman's or a feminist perspective.

Throughout the bible there are dozens of examples of how women should be treated as «the weaker vessel, the feminine one» (1Pe 3:7) In a world in which adultery, divorce, and domestic abuse are prevalent, Joel is a fine example of how we should live with higher standards, especially towards the treatment of women.

Problem definition is time - consuming, a deep journey into our own prejudices and hopes for a Christian faith that actually makes a difference, a horrible awakening that giants of the faith may have little faith in God and more in courts and money, that fame - seekers exist within the church system and garner friends as shields, that a man that marries a second wife may wish to destroy the first wife at any cost, and that authors can indeed write good books but run away from women speaking of their own abuse, and that prior friendships dictate the limits of Christianity....

The prostitutes I have come to know were mostly women who had been severely abused by men; they had been emotionally broken and often times physically as well.

Despite its limitations and the significant abuse women suffered as a result of it, Williams argued that the mammy role was «the most powerful and authoritative one slave women could fill.»

Mercy Canada is a non-profit residential home for young women, ages 19 - 28, from diverse socio - economic situations, struggling with life - controlling issues such as drug & alcohol abuse, physical & sexual abuse, human trafficking, eating disorders, self - harm, depression, and unplanned pregnancy.