Kristen

SM said,
“What is it in the relationship between a man and wife and a single woman and her father/pastor/boyfriend that constitutes a right to command, direct, dtermine, command obedience, etc. even lovingly?”
SM, I’m afraid that the rationale, conscious or otherwise, is that women are property. That has historically been the attitude of men since written history began, and it still exists in many societies and cultures and is imbibed by people even in Western society without their realization– pornography, anyone? — and is one of the things that is meant to be different in Christ’s Kingdom.