The hierarchical complementarians who objected to ontological ineptitude were quick to state that they knew women to be very capable and competent in a variety of leadership spheres, but that this didn't really have any bearing upon the roles God set out for men and women at Creation. The basic rejoinder I heard from evangelical readers was that gender roles are rooted in a creational account rather than endowment, that the issue is more about roles, vocations and calling than competencies and giftedness. Consequently, when I speak about "complementarianism" I'm speaking of the view held by many evangelicals.) I elaborated upon this today in a companion post: Some Contrasts Regarding Gender Roles in Evangelicalism and Catholicism. (There were also objections from those working from a Catholic framework, but traditions with celibate priesthoods are not working, in my estimation, with a "complementarian" position. Regardless, it's not surprising that many evangelicals objected to the argument of my post. But ineptitude does mean "lacking in fitness" and "ill-suited to the situation or occasion." And those are the main ideas I had in mind in picking that word. In hindsight the word "ineptitude" might not have been best, a bit too strong. That is the belief at the heart of hierarchical complementarianism. That is, women are permanently lacking and incompetent in leadership spheres ( ineptitude) because of the kinds of beings they are, namely women ( ontology).
Women are ontologically inept when it comes to leadership. To say that men and women are "complements" of each other and that menĪre given the gifts of leadership in this arrangement is to argue that Hierarchical complementarianism is founded upon the belief of ontological ineptitude. The most provocative part of that post was that I claimed that a belief in ontological ineptitude sat at the heart of the hierarchical complementarian position. I'm hesitant to write more about gender roles and complementarianism, but I'm puzzling through some of the responses to my post on Monday Let's Stop Calling It Complementarianism.
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