pinklight

It seems that Mark, like many other people, has redefined “egalitarian” to mean ‘identical’. But that is not what it means.

I think the train of thought goes like this:
If the husband does not have authority over the wife and the wife does not submit to his authority, then they are identical. What makes them not identical is that he has authority and she has submission. What makes the couple “complementary” is that he has authority and she submission.

But ofcourse the husbnad does not need to have authority and the wife submission in order for them to be complementary. So then egals are seen as saying that men and woman are identical because we deny any hierarchy. The reasoning is poor.