"If we stand 'in persona Christi,' who are you laity--on the Left or on the Right--to claim to  know better?"

Doesn't that stance stipulate to a power structure that is inherently and forever rigged: "I am. You're not. Case closed"?

Ironically, when a married woman says that to a male celibate--"I am. You're not. Case closed."--it's seen as terribly wrong, sinful, unholy, disobedient, and superficial.

I know, some will respond "But it's not about an earthly power structure like you laity libs try to make it." But isn't it exactly that in the cases at hand?