Tag: Role Reversal

Adam and Eve Didn’t Reverse Roles

~ Sarah J. O'Connor ~ 8 Comments

Some of you who read my post A Bad Decision and the Fallacy of the Role Reversal Argument had questions about the whole idea of role reversal. What I want to do today is explain how Genesis 3 is interpreted to get the idea and how this position misses the point. In this post I’m going to respond to the idea of role reversal. In my next I will rebut the perspective that headship means authority.

But before we get started, let me explain what a, role reversal is. Fundamentally, it is the idea that Adam and Eve sinned by reversing their God-ordained gender roles. Eve wanted to be in charge and Adam didn’t.

Bingo. Roles reversed.

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A Bad Decision and the Fallacy of the Role Reversal Argument

~ Sarah J. O'Connor ~ 5 Comments

Now and then my husband and I make a bad decision. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen. Sometimes it’s one we arrive at together, sometimes it’s his decision, and sometimes it’s mine.

Recently we made a killer of a bad business decision.

The painful consequences of our fecklessness prompted Jim and me to reflect on our decision-making process and how we can improve it. Our bottom line: we didn’t work together the way we should have. We need to improve our commitment to sharing our gut-level hesitations with each other, to taking more time in conversation before signing on the dotted line.

One thing that never crossed our mind, however, was that our bad decision was due to a role reversal. In other words, we don’t believe that if I would just stay out of it, Jim would make terrific decisions.

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