An assumption being made -- that the men doing the bullying are that aggressive all the time. It's usually backhanded, not fisted. Passive-aggressive. They deflect anything a woman says or simply ignore her.
Notice the ratio for men to women specifically on the BDF. It looks like a military base on purpose. We're still in child status there -- "Children should be seen, not heard." But the Christian version of that is called "submitting." What a woman says shouldn't be taken too seriously because they should be submitting, not talking.
So which women are left? The ones who will buy that right after we buy a mansion for a dollar.
The problem is the women who were raised to believe we're supposed to submit to any man, the ones who were abused, and the ones who are new in Christ don't know they're being bullied into that. Which brings even more women stuck into the tar pit while the bullies are in it for a donnybrook.
And it's not just women. Those new in Christ, the young, and the unsure, all see the bullies as "the pillars in the community" simply because they know a lot of verses, they talk a lot and no one says much against what they say, and they're adults. Meanwhile, the intelligent and kind people leave BDF all together so the bullies get exactly what they want -- full control of the donnybrook!
That's the heat. AND it's a good marketing plan, or this site would have folded years ago.