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Originally Posted by zeek
Oh you agree the Bible is patriarchal. I couldn't tell that from your posts which seem to argue the opposite. I never accused the biblical authors of misogyny. However the teaching in 1st Timothy has often been used for misogynist ends by church people. Where is the verse that instructs women and children to speak loudly when they're being sexually abused by pastors, elders, bishops, so-called apostles or their privileged sons?
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23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman
because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.
Clearly women are instructed to "scream for help" in such situations. Your question neglected the other not uncommon crime of a woman found in fornication who cries rape. This verse covers both possibilities.