Alison

@ pinklight (#246 and following): “The more I continue with this thread the more is ridiculous in my mind”. Precisely, and that’s why the authority argument is on its face not just ridiculous but farcical. IMHO, it all comes down to one thing: men trying to prove that women are inferior, and they are the superior ones. We wouldn’t be going round and round in these stupid circles with this infantile argument (essentially a p—ing contest) if there weren’t a huge (and obvious) dose of male hubris at play here. It will be denied but I think (and hope) I’ve been around long enough to sense pride at work, and there’s a lot at work in the writings of the complementarians (Grudem and Piper especially come to mind). Why else would they be hung up on submission, unless they felt like they had to defend “their” authority? That’s the $1,000,000 question, and until they can admit that that’s at least in part what’s going on, we continue in this ridiculous cycle, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum.(And if I butchered the Latin, mea culpa. Coffee and Coldplay aren’t enough to wake me up so far. Up too late celebrating my beloved Chicago Blackhawks winning the Stanley Cup!)