Evangelical complementarian culture recruited mediocre white men into leadership simply for showing up

Evidence

Up until that point I don’t remember people expecting me to do much of anything. I was a lazy student, not particularly athletic or talented in any ways that I was aware of, and there was this whole sub-culture that needed mediocre white guys to just show up and lead because that’s what Jesus wanted and all these women were turning the church into wusses. And all I had to do was show up and talk the talk and keep my nose clean. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 448

Categorization

• SEED: The admission of mediocrity as qualification — a first-person testimony of how low the bar for male leadership was — could anchor an essay on credentialism vs. identity as leadership criteria in religious communities.
• XREF: Connects to the pipeline’s prior pattern of ‘small acts of decorum’ and status signaling — here, maleness itself as the credential that substitutes for competence.