Mutual Submission, Part 9

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. On December 1, 2013, Dalrock posted this classic article. This was long before I even knew who Dalrock was. He wasn’t even on my radar. Yet, so typical is this of the Manosphere in the following …

Mutual Submission, Part 8

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. Throughout this series, we had focused on Wayne Grudem’s position on mutual submission. We’ve largely focused on his understanding of the Koine Greek word hypotassø often translated as “to submit” or “to subject” with the sense of …

Anonymity and Plagiarism

In my last post, “Deti on Personal Hypocrisy,” I responded to the claim that withholding private information is antithetical to opposing pseudonymity. In that post I repeated the following claims, which I have long held: I have been careful to note that not all anonymity or privacy is wrong: For …

Deti on Personal Hypocrisy

Or, why censorship is harmful   This is a follow-up to my last post, “Sectarianism,” where I first discussed the censorship that I reference below. As is my common practice when a comment of mine is censored and/or deleted, I respond here. It’s always a bit of extra special irony …

Sectarianism

This is a quick review of “Sectarianism.” To the extent that I’m a remnant or branch of the manosphere—a questionable proposition—my disagreement is based solely on the ideas it presents and nothing else. I am not influenced by the government or society. They do not threaten me nor dictate what …

Mutual Submission, Part 7

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. After I wrote Part 6, Surfdumb asked the following pertinent question: I’m not an important person. I have no formal theological education and I’m not fluent in Koine Greek. I’m a self-taught nobody. Educated, credentialed scholars …

Mutual Submission, Part 6

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. There are two primary, but related, issues at the root of the biblical grammatical argument on submission. The first issue is whether or not the Greek middle voice is equivalent to the English active voice. The second issue is whether or not …

Mutual Submission, Part 5

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. There are two primary, but related, issues at the root of the biblical grammatical argument on submission. The first issue is whether or not the Greek middle voice is equivalent to the English active voice. The second issue is whether …

Mutual Submission, Part 4

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. Here is a very important comment (repeated in full below) on the topic of gender equality, which is related to the discussion of mutual submission. It is very important because, if what the comment says is correct, …