However you miss the foundation of what is being complimented. There is an idea that there are absolute and intrinsic qualities that men and women possess as per their sex. Although all marriages should compliment, how can that be possible if you must be someone you aren’t in the first place in order to be…

How does it allow a husband and wife to choose what is right for their family if it explicitly lists “Protect family/provide for family” under “Husband”, and “Children/Managers of home” under “Wife”? That seems pretty much determined. I don’t see any arrows or a note saying “Can switch Husband and Wife labels and…

The woman is LITERALLY beneath the man on the chart. How can the person who created it not be communicating to the people who see it the level of importance of each item on the chart. That’s exactly how corporate flow charts are made as well. If they were equal, it would look like a teeter-totter with Christ as the…

Pretty sure the only responsibilities I have that are directly related to my genitals are cover them in public, keep them clean and don’t create unwanted children with them. Equally sure that these responsibilities apply to everyone regardless of gender.

Nah, it’s the same old, same old chit dressed up as “complimentarianism.” (is that a word?)

Very interesting article. I’m glad your husband is recovering and you guys can get through this. I agree with you on breaking your beliefs.

Actually, that picture says “woman, your place is in the kitchen with the children.”

Thanks for this. I’m one of those girls who grew up like you mentioned, and even just reading it I realize at how normal it is to me but how shocking it is to most people. I started pulling away from my church when I was seventeen and started college at a liberal woman’s college a few months ago, so im obviously not…

So essentially, the woman should keep quiet about her true feelings in public and just support whatever the man does?

I spent my entire childhood / young adulthood being brought up in an Assembly of God church. It was made very clear to me (a girl) that not only was my role to be a wife and rear children for my husband, but that I should really, really, really WANT to do that. Like, there was actually something wrong with me if I did…

Growing up, my siblings and I were raised by a single mother and she worked in the Church run daycare. We had been going to the church for years, and my Mom was going to a divorce support group (this being 6 years after my father cheated and walked away), when she met a man in the group. They became friends, and…

The denomination I grew up in, and still belong to, recently voted against womens’ ordination. The main reason was because of complementarianism, and an authoritarian interpretation of the bible. I was not very surprised at the vote, but I have since been very vocal about my displeasure on Facebook. One person…

“I have deeply held religious beliefs that I need to be able to lie to all the patients!”

The internet is made of cats, and Lil’ Bub is the neutronium brick at the center of it all, around which all others orbit.

As the exhausted patient of a dental practice that blasts Christian music, has Christian “art” everywhere, and whose employees ask me occasionally what church I go to, I say with excitement, sue their Christian asses out of business.

Er, to me, this is a matter of basic math. I have lived in NYC for 8 years and the NY metro area for my entire life. I have gotten my nails done in many different places, and when you start doing the addition at most of them, the price for your manicure starts to not add up to anything near what would be a livable…

As a former “fresh off the boat” immigrant (what people have called me and my family) I completely believe the nytimes article. You want to meet people who exploit immigrants? Look at their closest community first and foremost. Talk about brutal. This is one area where I think that the “evil white man” is only one of…

It’s hard for me to feel sorry for people who are protesting their right to treat workers like indentured servants, and offensive that they are invoking the “women business owners” bit.

I just made this particular one. Good, or not harsh enough?