gengwall

Mark’s example keeps coming up as the perfect illustration of the soft-comp contradiction. He says that he makes the “decision” regarding when his children leave the table. But he can’t claim that such a decision is unilaterally deligated to the male, at least not biblically. Nor can he claim that he always makes that decision – if the tom-cat’s away, it is his wife’s play. Nor can he demonstrate that such a decision shows his authority over his wife, since he would not, I presume, pretend that he can tell her when she can leave the table. Not can he really call his wife’s deference “submission” since she is not actually submitting to him but is simply supporting an approach to child rearing that they both agree with and have mutually “decided” to employ. So everything that Mark claims his example shows about headship, submission, and authority is actually unsupported by the very nature of the act within the example.