Chauvinism, Feminism and the Fall

Why does God come looking for Adam first on the day of the fall? Why does he first question the man about why they are hiding, how they know they are naked, whether they have eaten the fruit, why they have eaten the fruit?

It doesn't seem like a very 'egalitarian' thing for God to do. After all, it was the woman who was first tempted, the woman who first took the fruit and ate the fruit and it was the woman who gave the fruit to Adam. If in fact Eden was a place where the roles of male and female were reversible and fluid, then God would have arrived looking for the woman with difficult questions to answer.

But the implicit message that echoes through the pages of scripture, beginning with this action on God's part, is that Adam was guilty of double sin. Yes, Eve had been deceived and so ate; but Adam had both rebelled by eating and had failed in his God given role as leader and had become a follower.

The result of sin distorted all of creation - but in Genesis 3:6 we see that part of the fall is the distortion of both male and female interaction. Both militant feminism and domineering chauvinism are born in the fall. Both are a sinful distortion of God's good design.