Last night's post prompted this (forthcoming) thought.

Chesterton's justly famous quoted seems apropo to the discussion of patriarchalism and egalitarianism, at least if it's modified a bit.

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting: it has been found difficult and not tried."

Substitute our choice words, and we get....

"Patriarchalism has not been tried and found wanting: it has been found difficult and not tried."

Conversly,

"Egalitarianism has not been tried and found wanting: it has been found difficult and not tried."

Somehow it seems fitting.

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