Paula

That’s exactly my view, Cheryl. Jesus wasn’t “being a guy” when He drove the merchants from the temple, and He wasn’t “being a sissy” when He wept over Jerusalem and compared His attitude toward the people as like a mother hen gathering her chicks beneath her wings.

I’ve written rebuttals to various male supremacist documents in the past year, and my theme each time is that the qualities they are trying to reserve for men are Christian qualities, not male qualities. Women are courageous, wise, aggressive, nurturing, etc., and are not exempt from the fruit of the spirit– and neither are men. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control– are not Christian men and women all to have these qualities?

Male supremacism would turn the fruit of the Spirit into something like this: lust, winning, conquest, aggression, harshness, slickness, good ole boy, roughness, and self indulgence.