Accepting and celebrating the co-equal roles of the members of the Godhead places new responsibilities upon triun Christians that every one of them wishes to ignore. And those that speak of their offense is ignored as well. Let me quote Kevin Giles:
"In the light of this powerful, contemporary stress on the co-equality of the divine persons who are understood to be bound together in the most intimate bond of love and self-giving, it is no surprise to find that some of the best contemporary expositions of the doctrine of the Trinity understand the Trinity as a charter for human liberation and emancipation (cf. L. Boff, Trinity and Society [Obis, 1988]; J. Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom [Harper and Row, 1981]; C. LaCugna, God for Us [Harper, 1991]; M. Erickson, God in Three Persons [Baker Academic, 2003]). If no one divine person is before or after, greater or lesser because they are “co-equal” (as the Athanasian creed says) this suggests, we are told, that all hierarchical ordering in this world is a human construct reflecting fallen existence, not God’s ideal. God would like to see every human being valued in the same way. It is thus the Christian’s duty to oppose human philosophies and structures that oppress people, limiting their full potential as human beings made in the image and likeness of God. Erickson is one evangelical who is sympathetic to this agenda predicated on the belief that the persons of the Trinity relate as equals in self-giving love."
Triun Christians affirm that men and women are equals in god's eye, yet God has given them different "roles". For a moment this sounds great, but when actualized it means women have the “role” of obeying and men the role of leading; not a single other “role” is evident. Further, it is permanent and unchangable since God is said to have ascribed it in creation before or even as a consequence of the Fall. The defining definition of the woman is the Subordinated Sex.
I believe the LDS assert that Christ is not eternally subordinant to the Father. Nor is the woman eternally subordinant to man. Those outside our church looking in believe our doctrines distinctively subordinate the women to the men. This is error. I assert we are taught equal subordination in the form of mutual subordination.