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Complementarians spend a good deal of time talking about the responsibility that men have to provide for and protect women. That must mean, at the very least, providing a safe space for women to speak up and voice their concerns. This applies generally, but especially to abuse.
Demanding that women be silent about how they have been wronged and suffer alone in the shadows must be seen as what it is: an unhealthy, sinful, misogynistic structural prop meant to support fragile male egos.
Christians must not let such systemic gender injustices persist. Women ought to be heard. Their claims ought to be believed--corroborated as far as possible, but believed nonetheless. Their anguish felt. Their burdens lifted.
On a separate, but related issue, Christians, especially complementarians, should be passionate about empowering women to embrace the opportunities that God has put in front of them.
Fear that women will usurp male authority should not prevent pastors from training women to handle the Bible well, to think theologically, and to teach as fits the occasion/context. Churches need healthy, mature male and female leaders.
