Thanks, Kerry! I think people fight gender roles because for thousands of years those in power dictated gender/racial/younameit divisions to remain in power. This is especially true in the church. Why give people the tools to overcome when doing so would risk said power-heads to resign power? It's evil at its most deceptive. If you read the book of Esther in the Old Testament, the King dismissed his first wife Vashti (before Esther) because his cabinet reasoned that if other women discovered that Vashti didn't get into trouble after not listening to her husband, then ALL women in the land would reason the same, and a giant (!) rebellion (!) would ensue. The trend stuck, and here we are, thousands of years later, with not much change.