Elsewhere many are doing #metoo lists for the women in Tanach... Excluding midrashim this would include:
- Daughters of men in Genesis 6
- Sara who was taken by Pharo and Abimelech
- Hagar who was forced into a non consensual marriage
- Lot's daughters, who were offered to a mob and impregnated by their drunk father
- Dina who was raped by Shchem
- Leah, Bilha and Zilpa who were forced into non consensual marriages (and Leah suffered emotional neglect and despite my no midrashim rule I feel I must mention one commentator says Jacob beat her) (And Bilha had to deal with Reuven pestering her after Leah died)
- Midianite virgins at the end of Numbers
- Tamar, one was raped and the other was treated like a sexual commodity by her father in law, and ultimately she had to pose as a sex worker to get her due
- Pilegesh Bgiva
- Michal who was used by her father as a prize and forcibly separated from the man who loved her
- Avigayil
- Batsheva
- The ten concubines of David that Avshalom cohabitated with on a rooftop
- David's companion (the shunamite)
- Any of Solomon's concubines
- Ruth, who had to use her body to get what she was owed (and was encouraged by her mother in law to do so)
- Esther
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