I just remembered something vaguely disturbing.
Remember when God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah? Before he did, a few men of God visited Lot and the men of Sodom wanted to have sex with them. Right?
INSTEAD, Lot offered his young, virgin daughters to them.
And yet, the only thing I was really taught about that passage was the men wanting to have sex with the men and how gross it was. There was never a narrative defending the daughters. There was never a discussion about rape and disrespect for women.
And that’s MESSED UP. Holy crap. We never talk about the girls who were nearly raped and beaten at their father’s whim. What the hell.
Judges 19 is a parallel story that’s even worse. In that one, the man does give the woman (his concubine in that story rather than his daughter) to the mob. Phyllis Trible refers to as a “text of terror.” (I haven’t read the book, but I’ve had it recommended on good authority)