And this talibanesque view is why people my age are running away from religion...I do respect your opinion and view but it's not for me. I love my women strong(mentally and physically), smart and independent..
FRiend, “people your age” have always run away from existential truths that offend their sense of propriety. That is what defines the difference between a liberal and a conservative, as popularly understood.
Conservatives, with age and experience, eventually accept the foundational principles upon which our universe operates, and liberals spend their entire lives trying to impose their philosophical preferences on it.
This is the seed from which Churchill’s famous comment grew.
While I appreciate your “respect” for my opinion, your description of your preferred “women” (now who’s demonstrating “talibanesque” attitudes) clearly shows you don’t understand that opinion. “Smart and independent” are not mutually exclusive of subordinate.
After all, there’s no such thing as a Navy SEAL that’s not smart and independent, but they still willingly pledge themselves to a hierarchical organization....and wouldn’t have it any other way!
In my own circumstance, I’ve been married to the same, first, wife for twenty five years. She has a professional degree that I paid for. Owns her own business with international clientele. Sits on the board of numerous charitable as well as professional associations. Holds more than one Peabody award. Regularly brings home more money than I do. Yet for all her accomplishments, she NEVER tries to circumvent decisions, or challenge our agreement that final authority for directing our family rests on me.
I submit to you no person with her list of accomplishments would EVER submit to a marital relationship as you conceive one like ours must be. Therefore, that conception must be flawed.