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Needless to say, Evangelical is a white male.
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While the bulk of Evangelical's post was truly pathetic, it is true that the writers were all male (though not many of them "white" in the Anglo-European sense of the word).
So if we are to take the Bible as the word of God, then unless we want to rethink the meaning of inerrancy we are stuck with what those men wrote.
I am willing to entertain a Bible that is fully authoritative in terms of the God it reveals that is written by men who write within the ethos and prejudices of the day. They speak of utterly destroying an enemy when they really mean that they won handily and left the survivors running for the borders. That is not open season for dismissing anything. But it eliminates the notion that there are deep spiritual truths in every phrase of the scripture. Or that anything particular is intended as some kind of permanent rule for all time. That every story is full of metaphorical nuggets to be mined like silver and gold.
Do you read Genesis 1 and conclude that God created the heavens and the earth in 6 days. Or are you impressed that God created the heavens and the earth in some way that could only be described in this limited way?
When a passage says that a day is like 1,000 years to God, is it a statement of actually relative time to apply like a formula, or is it a statement of the irrelevance of time to God?
What are we reading the Bible to find?
If our primary commands are to love God, love our neighbor as ourselves, and to love one another as Christ as loved us. If our edict for leadership is serving others and washing their feet. If . . . so many good examples. If these, then how do we find anyone to have a forced position of subservience? For any purpose?
Are we just proof-texting?