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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Putting to Rest Several Strawwomen

Mary Kassian has a great article that I stumbled upon through another blog. She seeks to set to rest “'Dora the Doormat' and other Scary Straw Women of Complementarity." As a complementarian, I appreciated the effort to clear up misrepresentations of the position.

From the conclusion:
Are there people who would like nothing better than to turn Dora into a doormat, Danielle into a dipstick, trap Kathy in the kitchen, insist that Bertha pop out more babies, and repress Rita? Yes, sadly there are. And I am the first in line to call them to account. But to say that these caricatures accurately represent the views of complementarians is like saying the Unabomber accurately represents the views of environmentalists. So please stop doing it!
Read the whole thing here.

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