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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(11,337 posts)
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 02:24 AM Friday

Another misogynist kicks the bucket.. Voddie Baucham, the guy who promotes "spank sticks"

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Biblical patriarchy

Baucham was an adherent of biblical patriarchy. He outlined his views on the subject in his 2009 book What He Must Be: ...If He Wants to Marry My Daughter, though preferring the phrase "gospel patriarchy".[14] Baucham criticized Sarah Palin's vice presidential candidacy in 2008, on the basis that women serve best at home.[15][16]

Baucham was also a supporter of the stay-at-home daughter movement.[17] He appeared in Vision Forum's 2007 documentary Return of the Daughters, in which he said that America is suffering an "epidemic of unprotected women."[

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The stay-at-home daughter (SAHD) movement is a subset of the biblical patriarchy[1] and biblical womanhood movements, particularly within the United States and New Zealand. Adherents believe that "daughters should never leave the covering of their fathers until and unless they are married."[2] This means preparing to be a wife and mother, eschewing education[1][3] outside the home and a career,[4][5] and according to Sarah Stankorb writing for Marie Claire, "complete subservience to their father".[5] For most stay-at-home daughters it involves a focus on the "domestic arts" such as cooking, cleaning and sewing.[6] Julie Ingersoll suggests that the purpose of stay-at-home daughters is to "learn to assist their future husbands as helpmeets in their exercise of dominion by practicing that role in their relationship with their father."[7]

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Another misogynist kicks the bucket.. Voddie Baucham, the guy who promotes "spank sticks" (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Friday OP
If I had a time machine... MrWowWow Friday #1
How Voddie Baucham's Teachings Cause Long-Term Damage: Collected Interviews - BlueWaveNeverEnd Friday #2
Good riddance. iemanja Friday #3
What kind of stupid name is that? Justice Brandeis Friday #4
his kind of gals are the ones who end up in shelters Skittles Friday #5
First time I have heard of him. mwmisses4289 Friday #6
"[Baucham] became a Christian in 1987." drmeow Friday #7
Sounds like incest to me. yardwork Friday #8
Call them what they are: extremist Christian clerics Torchlight Friday #9
Sounds like a blueprint for sexual abuse of daughters. Paladin Friday #10
A Pioneering Incel, I Think. MineralMan Friday #11

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(11,337 posts)
2. How Voddie Baucham's Teachings Cause Long-Term Damage: Collected Interviews -
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 02:27 AM
Friday

How Voddie Baucham’s Teachings Cause Long-Term Damage: Collected Interviews – R.L. Stollar https://share.google/DgQwQDdwzGTQy8BN6

Because the ideas were being accepted by leaders I respected, my husband and I decided to visit Baucham’s church one Sunday to see if it might be a good fit for our small family. Our daughter wasn’t even two years old at the time. Upon entering the auditorium, I was flabbergasted to see these short, leather straps sticking out of dads’ pockets and moms’ bags. It appeared to be the trending, matching accessory. These “spank sticks” were being sold at a resource table in the back along with a myriad of other books and materials.

A little while into the service—which was filled primarily with large families—a woman approached me saying my daughter and I would be far more comfortable in the nursing mom’s room and would I please follow her. (No nursery or children’s programs were provided.) My daughter was squirming, but quiet, and playing with the few toys I had in my diaper bag. I followed, and was escorted to a dark room in the back where another mom and I sat for the remainder of the service.

I remember overhearing a conversation where a father was boasting about welding in seats into their van to maximize space for their family.

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Katherine Mitchell: Baucham’s whole premise is that daughters are property and they are tools to use to further the glory of God and demonstrate the headship of the father. He claimed that domestic violence, sexual harassment, abuse, rape, and other bad things wouldn’t be an issue if teens or young women remained under the direction of and obedient to their fathers, and the husbands selected for them.

mwmisses4289

(2,318 posts)
6. First time I have heard of him.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 06:30 AM
Friday

Just how messed up in the head are these guys?

Edited to add: wow. he considered children "vipers in diapers"?!? I know kids can drive us adults crazy, but....smh

drmeow

(5,774 posts)
7. "[Baucham] became a Christian in 1987."
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 08:36 AM
Friday

at 18. I find that religious converts are often the most extreme (this includes true "born again&quot . Some outgrow it (think Cat Stevens) but for others I think they pick a religion that supports their already existing ideology.

Torchlight

(5,720 posts)
9. Call them what they are: extremist Christian clerics
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 09:20 AM
Friday

attempting to subvert state authority with orthodox religious law.

Paladin

(31,666 posts)
10. Sounds like a blueprint for sexual abuse of daughters.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 10:02 AM
Friday

Glad that Baucham is no longer around to advocate this trash.

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