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Episode 305: All the Problems with Complementarianism in a Nutshell--And How They Try to Make it Sound Pretty

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

Marriage, Social Sciences, Science, Relationships, Sex, Christianity, Wife, Religion & Spirituality, Mother, Society & Culture, Advice, Family

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Send us a text Complementarians use a lot of really nice-sounding words to describe their beliefs about gender roles, but when you actually break down what they mean, they're not talking about roles at all—they're talking about hierarchy. In this episode, Keith and I decode all the euphemisms like "different roles," "servant leadership," and "his headship is for your protection" to show what complementarians are really saying: that men should be in authority over women. The problem is, when y...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Bear Marriage podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Gregor from Bear Marriage.com

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Where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage.

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I am joined today by one of my favorite people, my husband Keith.

0:24.0

I mean, you're kind of favorite, but like I really, really love my daughters, too, so it's always hard to say who my favorite is. It's not a competition. It's not a competition. It's not a competition. I love him very much. Good. And we're going to have a great conversation today. I love being here. It's fun.

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Okay. One of my other favorite people, a couple of weeks ago, I did a podcast with Rebecca, our daughter, on the euphemisms that we use in evangelicalism about sex.

0:44.3

And how often those euphemisms are obscuring something which is pretty ugly, like sexual assault or other things.

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And it's really bad.

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And people were saying, hey, can you do a similar

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podcast on the euphemisms that people use about complementarianism? Yes. Yeah. And how they make it

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sound so lovely, but they don't say what it really means. Well, even complementarianism is a

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euphemism. Right. Right. Right. Which we'll get to in a minute. Don't spoil it yet. Yes. And so that's what we're going to do today. Before we get started, one way that you can really help us is if you're watching on YouTube, will you click the like button and hit subscribe? Because it tells the algorithm, hey, people like this and then they'll keep coming. And if you're listening on your podcast app, please rate the podcast five stars wherever you listen and subscribe as well so that you don't

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And it is tax deductible within the United States. And the link is in the podcast notes.

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All right, hon. Wow. Are you ready? Yes.

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Okay. So what I thought we could do is talk about the way the complementarians talk about

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