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Mike writes:
“I don’t think it is a problem for him to sit in on a woman teaching in order to evaluate her either. I know you may say, ‘Well, he is placing himself under her teaching and authority’ but I don’t think that is what he is doing when evaluating is his motive.

This resembles the approach of our lawmakers in D.C. who always create loopholes in their lawmaking for their own advantage. Your opinion and loophole (“I don’t think…evaluating is his motive”) is a loophole permitting the circumvention of the “law” you seem to work with great conviction to uphold without technically breaking it.

What is key is your “I don’t think.” I have listened to sermons and read various heirchalists teach that men have the responsibility to remove themselves from a situation wherein “a woman is teaching and exercising authority”. So again, there is no consensus among heirchalists over where the boundary is. The boundaries appear to be in flux.