'...when some Christian communities try to inscribe and fix "essential" qualities of male and female - male leadership, female nurture, all the rest of it - and set up a theology around it, it looks remarkably like a version of the same old gendered oppression that secular culture already imposes upon the development of its children, giving away their joy, comfort, health and physical confidence as necessary sacrifices to the monetization of desire. I don't suppose anyone "means" to do harm. But given that we are all soaked in this toxic stuff from birth to the grave, there's no easy way out. Not for anyone. Quasi-separatist Christian cultures are no more immune than anyone else.'
Jessica Martin, Holiness and Desire, p.140.
