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 …
In “Vectors of Conflict,” Jack says this: I’m not an historian of the Manosphere. I apparently arrived on the scene somewhere in the middle, and didn’t really dip my toe in all that much for a while. I mostly just read the articles. And even those were a tiny selection …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. In Part 1 of the series, I centered in on the phrase hypotassomenoi allēlois (“be submitting yourselves to one another”) in Ephesians 5:21. I shared the following footnote: This explanation may be confusing, so I’m going to boil …