If the model is true you need to show that it is.
I'm surprised this is such a hard concept for you. I'm offering a
theory. Theories are never proven true, they only fail to prove false. If
you can prove it
false, I'll discard or modify it, just like any other theory.
If all you intend to offer is speculation then you're going to lose the argument.
Not if you fail to offer a counterargument, I won't.
There is much more to suggest that men are superior than there is to suggest the sexes are equal.
Then try offering some. If all you intend to offer is your opinion repeated ad nauseum, you're going to lose this argument.
I can entertain the possibility that there was a "coin toss" and God doesn't tell us about it, but it's less likely than my theory. The Bible has given me a lot more ammunition to work with.
They what are you waiting for?! Use all that ammunition!!
You say your theory is less likely than mine, fine, here's the hurdle you have to beat:
Part 1: Men and women are equal
2 Ne 26:33 "For none of these iniquities come of the Lord; for he doeth that which is good among the children of men; and he doeth nothing save it be plain unto the children of men; and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile."
1 Cor 7:3-4 "Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife."
1 Cor 11:11 "Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord."
1 Ne 35 "Behold, the Lord esteemeth all flesh in one; he that is righteous is favored of God."
Part 2: Man's rule is not to oppress women
D&C 121:36-37 "...the rights of the priesthood are inseparably connected with the powers of heaven, and that the powers of heaven cannot be controlled nor handled only upon the principles of righteousness.
That they may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man."
Part 3: And both together....
"By divine design, fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families. Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children. In these sacred responsibilities, fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners."--The Family, a Proclamation to the World
There, now
you trot out all the scriptures that say men are better than women, and we'll
compare.
I'd rather have the freedom to eat candy than be forced to eat a salad.
So would I, but such things aren't the province of game theory. Game theory is political science, and so deals with the choices of the individual having bad consequences for the individual THROUGH the breakdown of the group. Eat candy all you want, but when my family bear the consequences of your choices, that's a whole 'nuther ball game. One of the most fundamental laws of society is that your right to throw a punch stops at my nose.
Freedom, to me, is of far more worth than "my best interests."
Good for you, but who are you to say what's good for me? Who are you to say I'm being sexist to my wife? Where's our freedom to choose the structure and organization for our family and our church?
God shouldn't babysit us by assigning leaders at all and let us make our own choices/mistakes.
What makes you think he doesn't let us make mistakes? You act as if you don't have choices, and yet you obviously do. God has made suggestions. Follow them--and get the stated benefits in exchange for the stated sacrifices--or find your own way, and take whatever consequences come! Why are you griping about being offered advice? Do you gripe this way at PSA's, too?
If this is one of the few places where God does more than offer advice (i.e. he flipped the coin) it's only because this is a system that would be almost impossible for humans to set up. Not only would it require that everyone accept the coin flip, but it would require us agreeing on the criteria for the coin flip (i.e. do we make it gender-based, or maybe a matter of height? What about age?). All those things can be second-guessed later, and all it takes is one doubter to make the whole thing moot.