Malala Yousafzai

"We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced"

I always knew I liked Dustin.

Using military terminology in regards to sex will get you nowhere.

I know not all of my blog readers are really active in the blogging world, but in the theological blogsphere there's been a bit of a firestorm over a post that Jared Wilson wrote on The Gospel Coalition's website.  I find the post generally uninteresting as it falls within the main themes of complementarian thought, to which I am not a subscriber, but basically he's arguing that men and women who step outside of conservative relationship roles are opening themselves up to rape fantasy.  Whatever.  We could take a week debating that, and it's not the point of my post.  Rather I want to comment on the quote that generated the most heat:

"A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts." -Douglas Wilson

Mr. Wilson, how about instead we say a woman surrounds, entraps, takes hostages, and a man gives up and gives in to captivity? 

Two sides to a coin, buddy Douglas.  Two sides to a coin.

Rachel Held Evans on Women of Valor

Her entire post can be found here, but here's a quote that strikes at the heart of one of the main reasons why complementarianism is so frustrating to me:

At its heart, the modern “biblical womanhood movement,” as embodied by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and organizations like it, is not really about returning to a biblical lifestyle; it’s about returning to an idealized vision of pre-feminist, 1950s America that relegates a woman’s identity to her roles as wife, mother, and homemaker. Far from being counter-cultural, it is profoundly cultural, in that it emerges as a reaction to feminism and finds its ethos in nostalgic esteem for a specific time in American cultural history.