Separate but Equal

First, I would like to recommend Mike Aubrey's blog for tight academic argumentation in the egalitarian domain. There is a good discussion here about how complementarians are trying to fill some logical gaps. This is something that egalitarians are very familiar with as we work through first one passage and then another and return to our understanding of redemption.

In this post, Mike mentions that one commenter responded to the phrase "equal but different" with this remark. (see the World on the Web, comment #2) The entire comment thread is fascinating.

“Separate but equal” is a colloquial phrase ridiculed for good reason. I am, personally, baffled by the idea of a Christian woman (or a woman engaging any of the three great monotheisms).

Why embrace a theology (or any other set of ideas) that makes a nonsensical claim to one’s perpetual second-class nature?

Here is the origin of the term separate but equal.