Since men are equally capable of performing ≥99% of the tasks that “biblical patriarchy” reserves for women, the term ‘redundancy’ is undoubtedly a more accurate euphemism for the view than ‘complementarity’.
The ideology revolves around the notion that life is about marriage, and marriage is about a man doubling the labor capacity he commands—at which point he’s free to apply his labor as he pleases and instruct his wife to carry out basic adult tasks he’d rather not bother with.
Men and women are equally capable of doing laundry, cooking, parenting and earning a living.
So the capacities that patriarchists ascribe to men and women, respectively, are not in fact complementary—they’re redundant.
So the capacities that patriarchists ascribe to men and women, respectively, are not in fact complementary—they’re redundant.
The notion that this has anything to do with complementarity is pure propaganda. In fact, the opposite is true.
And, for the record, I’m all for division of labor—it’s efficient. I’m also not opposed to “conventional” domestic arrangements. I’m very much opposed to the notion that such conventions are “biblical”, and other arrangements are not.
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