![]() Women walk through life with a rape prevention strategy, thinking about dark alleys when walking home, checking the back seat of the car, scanning for threats. Sexual violence affects us more than it does men, and is always at the back of our minds. I think that many women do long for safety and to be secure, because women live in a much more dangerous world than men do. First, do women long to be rescued, or do women long for safety? And men want to do that rescuing, and that is an essential part of maleness–to want to rescue women. This is a large part of what Wild at Heart and Captivating are based on–that part of what makes us “feminine”, and part of the feminine soul, is this desire to Be the Beauty that attracts and arouses an Adam who will rescue (even though we ourselves can be warriors). ![]() I would like to ask: Is it a feminine trait to want and need to be rescued? I would like to explore one aspect of the Eldredge’s philosophy in their books today, though, and just ask if it’s actually in the Bible. But I understand that many women were ministered to by the idea that God is captivated by them, and that God loves and adores them. I do have some concerns about how the book handled issues of abuse and objectification, and I may write more about that in the future (I’m not promising anything!). While most people agreed with me, there were far more than normal speaking up and saying that the book was actually really good, and I was taking it out of context. ![]() I may have done a Fixed-it-for-you-too-far last night on social media, critiquing John Eldredge for calling women’s souls “a bloody mess” in the book Captivating, that he co-authored with his wife Stasi.
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