Spot on, Jesse. You’re coming to recognize what Dalrock has been saying for years. 🙂
What is Christian Complementarianism? I remember fondly listening to Mark Driscoll youtube videos (Mark Driscoll the former big name leader of Mars Hill Church and the Acts 29 Network and Christian Complementarianism) and I very much liked what he had to say about what it means to be a Godly woman and a Godly man and how men and women should relate to each other in marriage. Yes, true, I knew that I was more extreme or radical in my view of gender relations than Mark Driscoll was, me being more strongly patriarchal than him, but basically what he had to say seemed good and right to me even if in my opinion he didn’t go “far enough.”
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anonymous
December 30, 2017 at 2:40 am
Female controlled patriarchy?
Seriously – WTF?
Will S.
December 30, 2017 at 4:30 am
Dalrock discusses complementarianism; see his many posts on it.
Basically, the form of patriarchy is preserved, but women actually end up in control, because their obedience to the man is predicated on his doing and saying whatever it is they think he ought to be saying / doing.
anonymous
December 30, 2017 at 12:32 pm
Well, that’s matriarchy then, not patriarchy.
Will S.
December 30, 2017 at 4:51 pm
True, but in disguise; that’s the point.
They claim to honour patriarchy, but subtly subvert it.
anonymous
December 30, 2017 at 6:18 pm
Ever see the stepford wives with Christopher Walken?
Movie kind of along those lines…
Will S.
December 30, 2017 at 6:43 pm
Heard of it, but never saw.
collegereactionary
December 30, 2017 at 7:03 am
The BDSM community calls this “topping fruition the bottom.” Not sure what the connotation is among those freaks, but I doubt it’s positive. For us lovers of order, it is intolerable.
It’s the household equivalent of imperium in imperio.
Will S.
December 30, 2017 at 8:10 am
Yes; we’ve discussed ‘topping from the bottom’ here in the past. What they mean is that despite the man appearing to be in control in a domination / submissive relationship, the woman is actually in control. Now, as I understand it, they contend this only happens in certain circumstances, but I would contend, from what little admittedly I know of their freakish lifestyle practices, that all their relations are ‘topping from the bottom’, since the use of ‘safe words’ mean the one who is ostensibly being dominated, usually the woman, is ultimately in control, since with the invocation of a ‘safe word’, she can bring the proceedings to an immediate halt, if she feels ‘threatened’, or something.
To me, it therefore all seems to be play-acting, pretending at domination and submission, and not the real thing.
Here’s a great parody of ‘safe words’, etc., from Portlandia:
Topping from the bottom, indeed…
collegereactionary
December 30, 2017 at 8:49 am
Matt forney discussed the same thing a while back when covering ‘Venus in furs’ and male masochism. Oddly enough, that was discussed from the other side, the man being the one topping from the bottom.
Still, doing it too blatantly can’t be good for maintaining their fantasy narrative.
Will S.
December 30, 2017 at 8:59 am
No doubt…
info
December 31, 2017 at 10:31 am
Complementarianism is in other words: Figureheadship. Man is only figurehead not real head as Christ is head of the church.
Will S.
December 31, 2017 at 7:35 pm
Alas, indeed…