Cheryl Schatz

PamBG,

It is impossible to go through life without being influenced by the lives of other people and by their attitudes. And this is certainly ‘teaching’ in its most profound form. Therefore all men have been ‘taught’ by women in some form or other.

Good point!

The only way for a man to stay ‘pure’ from the teachings of women would be to be whisked off to an all-male environment at birth and live there for the rest of his life in a highly censored environment.

This reminds me of the sect of the Jews in bible times who didn’t want to look at any women for fear that they would fall into lust. They kept their eyes closed and did a lot of bumping into things. I can’t remember the name that they were called but I think it had something to do with bleeding something-or-others because they were always bleeding from walking into one thing or another. I don’t think today’s hierarchists have really thought this through. Jesus didn’t isolate himself from women and the fact that he picked women as the first ones to give out the good news of the resurrection was exceptional.