Dusman

The CBMW book Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, has a section where they instruct women on how they should speak to men so that they are not “teaching” them. It goes to the bazaar point that if a woman is giving directions to a man she must be very careful not to offend his manly rights of leadership – or something to that effect.

And that is just as arbitrary and subjective also because what is “manly” and conducive to promoting “male leadership” is going to be different from culture to culture and man to man. Again, inconsistency is the sign of a failed argument when my complementarian brothers and sisters try to use this verse (out of context, cf. 1 Tim. 2:15 “she . . . they”) to substantiate limiting a woman’s teaching.