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Is this a baseless fear:
What if the conservative groups have thought to make sexual crimes unpunishable for men, and thus they have created a plan to increase the risk of a woman without the protection of a male.
( I mean this in the eye of the public, not in the reality of what our biological Make up is. )
As a kind of, fix for the male loneliness epidemic. Kind of reinforcing the need for a patriarchal structure.
so, like. that's they- conservative Christians, especially conservative christian men- think the world should be.
remember that the biblical practice was men buying their wives from their fathers. (and also remember, that if a man raped a young woman who was unmarried, he could make that acceptable by paying the bride price and taking her as a wife. rape was a property crime in their world view.)
Anyone who insists biblical morality is the end-all-be-all of morality is either a straight up monster, or someone who doesn't understand biblical morality. Usually both.
(just to be clear, biblical morality has less to do a particular culture- that was a normal practice across the region. it's bronze age men being assholes, not a specific group.)
Hell if even if that were the world we lived in they'd still try to avoid paying