I don't want to link back to that "how to be a woman" dude but want to deconstruct his little screed a bit -- it's a perfect example of a weird new trend in misogyny: Christian patriarchy with the Christian PARTLY shaved off. But only partly. Example from his thread: 
Some of you will recognize this as the Bill Gothard "spiritual covering" diagram from Christian patriarchy.
Which always makes me think of this image
Banksy INTENDS for you to notice the visual irony of rain coming from under the umbrella.
Gothard & those who follow him apparently FAIL to notice that their diagram indicates clearly that both "Christ" and "Husband" are terrible umbrellas that don't work.
Gothard & those who follow him apparently FAIL to notice that their diagram indicates clearly that both "Christ" and "Husband" are terrible umbrellas that don't work.
Evangelicals are the kings of poorly thought-out analogies that end up being ironic.
So, back to this guy, even though his Gothardian DIAGRAM is "Christ" "Husband" "Wife" "Children" his explanatory TEXT is “God” “Man” “woman” “kids”
So, not ONLY is it directed in a generic sense at "feminist women" and not specifically at "Christian women," it's also somehow even MORE messed up & dehumanizing to women's role than the Gothard version.
In Gothard, husbands submit to Christ, wives submit to their own husbands, and children submit to their own parents.
It's terrible, but coherent.
It's terrible, but coherent.
In this dude's variant, "Man" (as opposed to "men"?) submits to "God (truth)", "woman" submits generically to "Man" and "kids" submit generically to "woman."
By using "Man" in that fashion, he's invoking "Man" as a synonym for "human" and therefore positioning "woman" and "kids" as NOT human.
By making the top cover "God (truth)" he's saying not "this is what to do if you are a believer in my faith" he's saying "this is INHERENTLY and OBJECTIVELY true whether you believe it or not."
Obviously a much broader claim, and impossible to support with evidence.
Obviously a much broader claim, and impossible to support with evidence.
Once you know the tropes of Christian patriarchy, you start to notice it shows up in a lot of supposedly secular contexts -- as if a Christian patriarchalist has carefully crafted an argument in which the appeal is to "nature" rather than "God" --
But this guy wasn't even CAREFUL. He just threw that Gothard diagram up there, and then tried to give it a secular context.
Christian patriarchy tropes are insidious and widespread and we should call them out. The end.
