Egalitarian claim 12.1: ABUSE: Male leadership in the home and in the church leads to the abuse and repression of women. (490)
Answer 12.1a: Abuse of wives by husbands is a horrible evil that should be opposed by all who believe the Bible to be the Word of God. (491)
Answer 12.1b: It is not biblical male leadership but distortion and abuse of biblical male leadership that leads to the abuse and repression of women. (492)
Answer 12.1c: It is cruel to tell wives who are being physically abused simply to stay and endure the suffering. Such advice will often lead to more violence and harm against them and their children. (492)
Answer 12.1d: Biblical male headship, rightly understood, protects women from abuse and repression and truly honors them as equal in value before God. (493)
Answer 12.1e: Statistics claiming to connect male headship with abuse of women are misleading. (495)
Answer 12.1f: By contrast, feminism robs women of their femininity and womanhood as God created them, and is destructive to both men and women alike. (496)

Egalitarian claim 12.2: LOSS OF WORKERS: The complementarian view robs the church of half its workers. (496)
Answer 12.2a: The complementarian view does not rob the church of any workers, but encourages everyone to use their gifts in accordance with Scripture. (496)

Egalitarian claim 12.3: MEAN TRADITIONALISTS: Some traditionalists are mean people, and so their view is wrong. (497)
Answer 12.3a: An ad hominem argument is an invalid way of disproving another position. (498)
Answer 12.3b: It is only fair to evaluate a position, not on the basis of its worst representatives, but by the words and actions of its best representatives. (498)

Egalitarian claim 12.4: COMPLEMENTARIANS ARE TROUBLEMAKERS: Complementarians who keep talking about male leadership are just making trouble in the church. We should stop arguing about this issue and all get along with each other. (498)
Answer 12.4a: See Answers 9.11a – 9.11d. (376-381)