“Forcing young girls to consider and respond to what men find attractive about their body lands dangerously close to CSA. Through the modesty message many of us were made acutely aware of men’s sexual desires before we even had a chance to develop any healthy sexuality of our own.” – Dee Goings /1

“While practising Christianity is good overall for marriage and sex, as soon as you internalize toxic teachings about male entitlement, those benefits often disappear. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “When we look closer at the data, what is remarkable is that the positive effects of church attendance on women’s health only apply for those who attend gender-inclusive churches. /1

“Patriarchy flourishes in egalitarian spaces ... because the depth of its systemic entrenchment within our churches has not been dealt with. Because we are not willing to do the reparative work needed to make men understand the impact patriarchy has on women. /1

“One of the problems with complementarianism is that for me as a man to repent and turn back to Patriarchal Jesus would be for me to ascend back to my rightful place of power over others simply because I'm a man. /1

“The bravery of women in ministry, the exhaustion they must feel from the constant onslaught against their humanity and calling on a daily basis, the brazenness of men denigrating women to their face and calling it biblical, emboldens me to keep speaking ... /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “Safety and love are at the emotional root of what enables humility and curiosity. And without those, it is difficult to learn anything new or engage in critical thinking. /1

“Complementarianism started out as a response to social change taking place in broader society and in the church. It’s important to realise that it didn’t arise out of any kind of debate about the text within New Testament studies. And this poses a significant hermeneutical problem ... /1

“Feminism didn’t creep in anywhere; it’s a natural response to the gospel.” – Scott Baker From: www.threads.com/@thecachinna...

[On the translation of “hypotassō”]: “The question ... is not whether “submit” can be defended lexically. In some contexts it can. The question is what English readers hear when they encounter it—and whether what they hear is what these texts are saying. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “I grew up in evangelical purity culture and 90s/early 2000s diet & extreme thinness culture. I learned my body was either too much or not enough — either a “stumbling block” to lead men astray, /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “I don’t want to discourage any women from applying their gifts and expertise in ministry. I know women leaders who would say they were supported in their work, among male colleagues, in evangelical institutions. /1

“Whenever someone insults a Black person (or another historically oppressed group), we reflexively reach back to pull open the cabinet of our accomplishments: the degrees, the job titles, the “firsts.” We exhaust ourselves gathering achievements like armor against indignity. /1

“The evangelical space is the *only* space where sexism is [viewed as a] good … We are wasting so much of our energy just trying to argue that women get to matter.” – Sheila Wray Gregoire /1

“I have known so many women—talented, faithful, curious, engaging—who ended up spending most of their careers focused on gender when they didn’t even want to in the first place. /1

“In [John] Piper's eyes, a female drill sergeant is inappropriate because drill sergeant behavior is totally outside the bounds of femininity ... Piper's vision relies on the premise that aggression, violence, and rage are masculine traits. They have no place within femininity ... /1

“I worked at a nonprofit for the unhoused for three years and I specifically trained church volunteers since I have an MDiv and I’m a chaplain, and one of the hardest things for every Christian to understand is that we do NOT do “transactional gospel.” /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “If unity comes at the cost of women continuing to be devalued, diminished, disrespected and rejected, that does not seem like the gospel unity embodied by Jesus. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “While Greco-Roman women could become heirs, they faced restrictions regarding how they could use an inheritance. This is probably why Paul designated believers of both genders “sons” (Gal 3:28–29).” – Denise T. Plichta /1

“I am an ordained pastor and a man, and never again will I attend, or be a member, or be an employee of a church that perpetrates the sexism of male-only leadership. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: [On the story of Deborah in Judges 4–5]: “The text portrays this woman of light and fire, this prophet and judge, in a consistently positive way throughout. Her people, whom she rescues at a time of national crisis, respect her. /1

“There was also a prophet, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, who belonged to the tribe of Asher. She was very old. After she married, she lived with her husband for seven years. She was now an 84-year-old widow. She never left the temple area but worshipped God with fasting and prayer night and day. /1

“Paul considered prophecy to be the most desirable of the spiritual gifts (1 Cor. 14:1), and he listed prophets and prophesying before teachers and teaching in his lists of ministry gifts in Romans 12:6–8, 1 Corinthians 12:28, and Ephesians 4:11. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “The hermeneutics of legitimization: an approach to biblical interpretation that consistently produces moral justifications for social practices and institutional arrangements that benefit oneself. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “The point that ... Emerson Eggerichs makes with his title, “Love and Respect” is that some people are human, and other people should be affectionately treated like pets. This is just Greco-Roman and colonial paternalism all over again. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “We have harvested dishonorably from women and the bill has now come due. Gen Z women are just the beginning of the exodus coming to our churches because of the accumulation of neglect, spiritual abuse, and inequity found in our corporate bodies. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “All people—including women—deserve more than systems that demand their compliance and unquestioning sacrifice. Our faith communities should protect our autonomy and personhood, not undermine them ... /1

“What has not been publicly acknowledged so far by complementarians is the fact that in all the major exegetical debates they have had with evangelical egalitarians, they have lost completely. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “People who wanted to enslave Africans & their descendants decided it was fine, and constructed a biblical argument for doing so. /1

“One of the most telling things about the convos I've been having on FB on my main page about the SBC vote is how many men, even men on staff at Baptist churches, are absolutely gleeful and mean in their comments towards women who are hurting and feeling betrayed. /1

“A truly complementarian system would keep their men in check without hesitation and with due diligence. And as if they feared the vengeance of God.” – Robin Jester Wootton From: robinjesterwootton.substack.com/p/will-the-r...

“Time for a walk out ladies. Let them preach to themselves.” – Danielle Strickland From: www.threads.com/@daniellejst...

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: On leaving the SBC]: “The gains are so huge. Once you get out of that type of system, you realize how much you have been lied to, how much bigger God is, how small God was made in that church. /1

“When our young people, especially university students who are learning to study texts, see us using inconsistent hermeneutics to maintain a power structure, it creates a stumbling block. They see the New Testament teeming with women exercising spiritual influence ... /1

“To use 1 Timothy 2:13 to create a universal rule that excludes women from church leadership requires *eisegesis*. It forces a concept of “hierarchical governing order” into Genesis 1–3 that is simply not there, /1

“When it comes to the belief in male headship ... the best results are never believing it and not acting it out (no surprise there). /1

“One of the key marks of God’s appointing and anointing is the gift of working together and celebrating one another. /1

“God has not stopped calling women. God has not stopped gifting women. And God has not stopped inviting the Church to repent where its theology has limited what he longs to release.” – Terran Williams From: kyrianetwork.com/foreword-why...

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “An ideology is a set of ideas that aim to explain the world and seek to change it. Facts that do not support or counter the great idea are simply ignored or dismissed. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “When we demand power based on gender or any other social identity, we are not living in the example of Christ. Christian egalitarians believe that we are called to different roles based on the gifts we have been given by Christ through the Holy Spirit. /1

“The authority to minister comes from God. It is an authorisation to engage in a certain ministry on his behalf. Hopefully, the church recognises the gifting and calling from God in individuals, and allows, endorses, and encourages the ministry of these people. /1

“The Greek word “authentein”, which is inadequately translated as “exercise authority” in many English translations of 1 Timothy 2:12, refers to bad, overbearing behaviour. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “A Christian vision of virtue must govern our understanding of what it means to be “manly” as a follower of Christ. When the target for Christian discipleship becomes “manly” rather than “Christlike,” /1

“And may the Church become again what it was always meant to be: a strange, upside-down kingdom where the last are first, where the meek are not dismissed but revealed as strong, where power is always suspect and surrender is always sacred. /1

In complementarian systems, a woman threatening a man’s power is far more dangerous than a man using his power to harm others ... /1

“The main problem is the way complementarian theology and practice trains men to see women, and—maybe even more sadly—the way it trains women to see themselves. Be it ever so subtly, the message is that a woman is in some way less than a man, and thus has less to offer. /1

“Complementarianism, even if it could be enacted in perfect loving kindness, creates not only systemic discrimination but implicit and explicit biases that disadvantage women. Domestic violence and complementarianism both involve men holding positions of power over women, /1

“In patriarchal churches, a woman who questions her husband’s authority or raises concerns about her treatment gets labelled “rebellious” or “unsubmissive.” There is no legitimate avenue for complaint, because to push back is to sin. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “Shall we go on sinning that grace may increase? Absolutely not. The Bible has begun the process of undoing of patriarchy in the world, and we in the church are empowered by grace to live differently. /1

[On Eph 5:23]: “There are two things going on here. First, head and body were commonly used together in the first century Greco-Roman world as a metaphor for unity. Since Paul talks about unity repeatedly throughout Ephesians, it is fair to consider he is using this metaphor here. /1