Thanks, my friends. Y’all are very good for my ego, you know. And as a woman, an ego is a very bad thing to have; the patriarchalist tell us so!

About the “unsheathed sword” thing, it’s a reference to one of the Bayly brothers (they both contribute to the same blog and I forget which one worded it that way) imagining men being questioned by God in eternity about why they kept their swords sheathed from their lovers’ (wives’ ) wombs. I guess in a male-idolatrous worldview (and heaven view?), even God is obsessed with human sexuality.

And I don’t think I’ve mentioned here or at TW about the subject of one of Bill Mouser’s later books, “The Story of Sex in Scripture.” (Mouser is the imaginer/author of the “Five Aspects” stuff, if you’ve ever heard of them. Very strictly segregated hierarchalist stuff; men are the image of God, but women are the image of man kinds of nonsense.) Anyway, according to Mouser, God is engaged in “cosmic sex” with creation. This guy, a priest in a small anglican sect here in the US (Mouser himself is in Texas), actually believes this paganistic stuff and calls egalitarian Christians “heretics” who commit the unpardonable sin by calling patriarchy evil.

I am totally serious in my belief that such people are engaging in idolatry. I’m also serious in my theory that they’re stuck in some early adolescent stage of development, obsessed as their writings reveal them to be with sexual activity and sex differences. God willing, they’ll grow out of their obsession SOOOOON (please, God) and publicly repent of the harm they do, as leaders of Christian churches, to the true body of Christ.

Men and women are different. (What a “duh” level concept!) So far, so good.

But in patriarchy, men being different from women must be absolute. That’s why they invent long, complicated, legalistic lists of what men are like and what women are like, and why they’re polar opposite lists.

So if it’s a virtue for women to be submissive, then it’s anathema for men to be submissive.

That’s why virtually all the fruit of the Spirit wind up on the “pink” lists and why you have boorish, arrogant traits being commended for the boys. I suspect it’s also why they’re making such a business of accusations of “feminizing men/boys” in church, schools, society in general, etc. When reasonable people expect both boys and girls, men and women, to be courteous, humble, respectful, loving, kind, and other “feminine” things that are actually signs of civilized human beings, these wingnuts think that it’s an outrageous demand, that we’re “stifling” our boys and “emasculating” our men.

Uh, no. We just expect Christians — male AND female — to behave like mature, well-adjusted human beings. Which is why I believe that patriarchy is essentially incompatible with the Christian faith.

WOW … your whole comment post is excellent! I especially liked the above bit.

Heck, I’ll probably do both.

And I would have thought that term pretty sexy if it weren’t coined by the patrio-cults. Too bad; now if my future man ever calls his equipment that, I’ll have to bury my head in the pillow to keep from laughing.