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This concept of marital hierarchy based on sexual and erotic love (eros) is beginning to sound like a power paradigm. Some of the early church fathers who said things like: “the man has broad shoulders so is created for leadership and the woman has wide hips so is created for bearing children” had a similar view in mind. This may be part of the ideas that women are irrational (more emotional) and men are logical and rational (not emotional) which carries hints of men claiming to be more powerful and superior. Also, the Buddistic views that because of the shape of sexual organs and man being the giver/initiator, thus man is the more powerful and fit for leadership while women are to be receptive to male leadership. All of these concepts whirl around excuses to claim power to males. None of them are Biblical. It is not the way God thinks about things.