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Everything about your response is designed to at least mitigate the culpability of women, and that is precisely the problem. Women keep trying to widen the pool of responsibility as the first step in attempting to dilute it.

If you can assert the man is suppose to lead, even when she won't follow, then I can assert women are suppose to follow, even when he won't lead. This nonsense about her rebelling because he's not holding up his end is nothing but a misguided attempt to convince yourself you actually CAN throw stones from your glass house. I doubt God is impressed by philosophical eye-batting and pouty-lip on the part of women who claim to be His.

I submit a search for the keyword "women" in your Bible will turn up a divine attitude towards women and their predilections (yes Virginia. If "men" can be pigs, "women" can be harpies) much different from the brown-nosing they receive from behind the pulpit from pastors financially dependent on keeping the congregants happy (most of which are usually female).

The problem is contemporary American women will only follow if you're leading somewhere they wanted to go anyway. That's one of the reasons I've said for a long time that there is very little difference between pro-life women and pro-choice women aside from their view on abortion.

I understand what you are saying and I'm not saying you are wrong. Young women have been taught that they don't need men to survive. They're strong and independent. But I wonder what their fathers and grandfathers were like. It goes back generations when men don't take the headship of the home seriously. I know that not all families are like that but many, many are, where the woman is more or less made to take the responsibility of leading the family, in church matters or other ways. Men need to realize that God has given them the headship of their families. It probably would be difficult if you aren't Christian to make that happen, however. In many so-called Christian churches, it will never happen because men are made to feel like they're second class citizens for even thinking of being the head of the family. That's why I attend the church I do. Men are encouraged to be the heads and the women are encouraged to let them. We're so much happier when we do it God's way and not our own. We're not so far apart on this, my FRiend.