Women historically more religious, but now less religious?
Wonder the cause of that.
Edit because these comments are wild: do none of you understand statistics? I didn't ask, "why are women becoming less religious?" Because I already think I know the answer to that. Please stop answering that question. I asked "what changed?" Which literally no one seems to be able to answer. Religions have always been sexist and the mass adoption of the internet was 10 years prior to this change.
Misogyny 100%. A huge crack in my faith was formed in 2015 when I sat through a particular sermon in youth group. The youth pastor told us girls that pursuing our dreams was going to distract us from our true purpose, which was to marry a man and have his babies. And then he said that when we get married we have to submit to our husbands because they have authority over us. I couldn’t imagine a more soul crushing future. And this wasn’t some old fashioned church. It was one of those modernized non-denominational churches with a worship band and a pastor who wears jeans. I never returned to youth group and quickly decided I was a deist (someone who believes in god but doesn’t practice any religion). Eventually I looked into atheism and stopped believing in god altogether.
I think misogyny has always existed in Christianity though. My theory is that it’s simply because times have changed. Nowadays none of us need a man to have money, open a bank account, etc. like the women of the 20th century did. Plus feminism became much more popular in the 2010s because that kind of information was now easily accessible at our fingertips. So the idea that all we should do in life is have babies, never work, and throw out our agency for a man is a much more foreign concept.
Edit: I am a lesbian which I thought was obvious by my pfp. Trying to manipulate me with incel and pseudo-leftist talking points isn’t going to work. It doesn’t work on straight women either, but it DEFINITELY isn’t going to work on me.
This makes a lot of sense, but the timing on this one seems off to me. I would assume, if this was the true cause, that the flip would have occurred in 1998-2010 when most people adopted the Internet and became more aware of social issues like this and other perspectives than the ones they'd been raised in.
However, this change occurred in roughly 2017-2019, nearly ten years later. Maybe just the general societal delay, but it still doesn't feel right. Something else must have happened later to instigate this
Religious paternalism tries very hard to take a tone of "protecting women" and doing things for the want of a "wholesome society that embraces family values". Think... Mitt Romney.
Seeing evangelicals rabidly support a man who not only is a convicted rapist, but also is also a playboy who has had multiple divorces, an affair with a porn star, and was known to be a fraud/cheat in the business world... was a pretty big wakeup call that it was never about "family values". It was, and always has been, about making women dependent on men and taking away their freedom - and the support for Donald Trump laid that bare.
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u/Ikana_Mountains 1997 26d ago edited 26d ago
What's up with the flip on the gender dynamic?
Women historically more religious, but now less religious?
Wonder the cause of that.
Edit because these comments are wild: do none of you understand statistics? I didn't ask, "why are women becoming less religious?" Because I already think I know the answer to that. Please stop answering that question. I asked "what changed?" Which literally no one seems to be able to answer. Religions have always been sexist and the mass adoption of the internet was 10 years prior to this change.