truthseeker

Cheryl, its nice to have you back in the fray. 🙂

I, too, agree that respect is something women like/need as much as men. No doubt there are both men and women to be found who need less respect and some who may feel a need for more, if we could measure such things, and it may be a function of other factors as well. Some folk seem to take much heat with little wilting. Others wilt quickly. (heat being disrespect here)

Likewise, women have often been characterized as wanting/needing security to men’s wanting/needing respect. Again, I think these are general desires of humans. I think it is interesting to note that the ‘love’ chapter in the bible does not differentiate between male and female in its address. We are all to do these ‘love’ things and we all apparently need to receive love in these various forms from one another. Similarly, nearly all the directives in the NT about how we are to live and to treat one another are not directed to specific genders. Nowhere does the bible say anything like ‘women need…’ or ‘men need ….’ The closest possibility is the comment about women being the weaker vessel, yet there is still no mention of them always ‘needing’ a particular thing because of this.