Kristen

In other words, if you make a universal rule, it applies to all people. If you make a universal rule and state it in terms of a specific group of people, then it applies universally, but only to all the people in that group. Paul could not have meant that it was ok for women to pray with anger and disputing. Nor do we think he meant that only men have a problem with anger and disputing, and therefore women don’t need the rule.

Therefore, since he limits his words to men, he was not making a universal rule. He was only applying a universal rule to a specific group in a specific situation.