From seatbelts to power chords there’s an underlying assumption in our society that male goes into female JUST LIKE NATURE INTENDED. We tend to ignore the bees and the bonobos and every other good goddamn creature under the sun by believing that two complimentary things must go together IN ACCORDANCE WITH GOD’S WILL. Now that we’ve injected a little science to our thinking, what are we left to do with these supposed ideals? Objectively Dan and Nate Smith join me in a conversation about gender complementarism and bad decorating. Catch the conversation below and be sure to checkback afterwards for some footNOTES!
The Unmaking of Biblical Womanhood: How a nascent movement against complementarianism is confronting Christian patriarchy from within. by Eliza Griswold for The New Yorker
“Gender complementarity” is a set of social norms, not a biblical teaching from The Reformation Project
Gender Complementarity from The Family Proclamation
Is gender complementarity essential to Christian marriage? by Mary McClintock Fulkerson for The Covenant Network of Presbyterians
The Beauty of Complementarity Goes Beyond Gender by Brett McCracken for The Gospel Coalition
In the Sight of God’: Gender Complementarity and the Male Homosocial Signification of Male-Female Marriage, Theology & Sexuality, 9:1, 19-47
“A temptation to eliminate:” Purity culture and other complementarian discourse in white male violence against women by Valerie Hobbs for Language and Religion
They Went to Bible College to Deepen Their Faith. Then They Were Assaulted—and Blamed for It. by Becca Andrews for Mother Jones
