The Fresh Air program recently had an interesting segment on how the Evangelical Purity Movement Sees Women's Bodies As A 'Threat.' An excerpt:

The first exposure I had to the purity message was actually about gender. Gender and sexuality are deeply intertwined in the purity movement. You aren't just supposed to be sexually pure, but you are supposed to be pure in your gender expression. So women and girls are expected to be hyper-feminine, supportive followers of men and boys who are expected to be hyper-masculine leaders, supportive and loving leaders, but leaders nonetheless. And if either the man or the woman or the girl or the boy strays from their gender expectation, for example, if the woman leads too much or the man becomes her follower, the idea is that the whole picture topples. ...
In this culture, men and boys are talked about as being sexually weak and women and girls are supposed to be the holders of all sexual purity. So ultimately women and girls are responsible for the sexual thoughts and feelings and choices that men make, and it's women and girls' responsibility to dress right, to act right, to talk right, to do everything just right to ensure non-sexuality for all people — and if they don't, they potentially risk being categorized as impure or as a harlot.

Kavanaugh is Catholic, but my Catholic parish has many Trump conservatives who are hard to tell from Evangelical Christians. They have arranged marriages and supervised courtship and other sex and courtship practices that are totally alien to the way I was brought up.

I imagine that in this line of thinking, Christine Blasey Ford was responsible for leading young Brett Kavanaugh astray, so she's the guilty party.

-Joe-