Complementarian and patriarchal are not mutually exclusive concepts when discussing gender norms in pre-christian society. There may have been a more complementarian view of women's social value, but those societies were also deeply patriarchal, hyper-masculine martial cultures.
Thank you for sharing these great insights! I am sharing this with the bright and caring women leaders that I know and love.
oh gosh, thank you!!!! i would love any feedback that they have, i want to turn this into a regular series ᵕ̈
Complementarian and patriarchal are not mutually exclusive concepts when discussing gender norms in pre-christian society. There may have been a more complementarian view of women's social value, but those societies were also deeply patriarchal, hyper-masculine martial cultures.
oh yes! i should have made that more clear. when i said malignant patriarchy, i mean that which treats women as essentially useless ornamentation. ᵕ̈