Arguments for Egalitarianism:
- Because men and women are equal in both value and human nature they are also equal in respect to their functions and tasks.
- Within the Christian and Islamic traditions, a denial of Egalitarianism has historically been accompanied by subordination of women to men.
- Men and women flourish best when they are treated equally.
- Though Complimentarianism sounds good in the abstract, in practice it is degrading to women since it puts men in positions of authority over them.
- Egalitarianism acts as a hedge against male chauvinism, patriarchy and gender hierarchy.
- Complimentarians typically sidestep the central questions, which is not whether there are beneficial differences between the sexes, but whether such differences warrant the inequitable roles, rights, and opportunities prescribed by advocates of gender hierarchy.
- Lack of gender equality implies male superiority
| Arguments for Complimentarianism:
- The Bible teaches Complementarianism.
- It is possible to live consistently with the principles of Complementarianism whereas Egalitarians are compelled to make frequent exceptions to their principles in real life.
- Egalitarianism is based on a faulty non sequitur, assuming that equality of function and task can be derived from equality of human nature and of value. By contrast, Complementarianism completely avoids this error.
- The claims of Egalitarianism are unscientific since they have been disproved by contemporary neuroscience and cognitive psychology.
- The role-differentiation assumed by Complementarians is Trinitarian, emphasizing the beauty of mutual interdependence.
- Men and women flourish best when they function as one another’s compliments.
- Evidence exists for the fact that the different bodily structures of men and women lead to different lived experiences in the world. Such differentiation makes Egalitarianism impractical.
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