Kim

Hi, Lin!

“Where are these differences before the fall?”

I’m not ignoring the rest of your good post. It’s just easier to deal with this one point, because I can wrap the entirety of what I’m thinking into my answer here. The argument could be made that since God chose to make a woman to be Adam’s “strong help facing him” (my paraphrase), that God Himself created them to complement each other. They had commonality of course, but she had things (beyond biology) he didn’t, and he had things she didn’t.

I do understand that the argument for differences being a reason for subjugation has been made for eons…but is it a real argument, or merely an excuse for angry, cowardly little boys at heart to beat up the girls? What I’m hearing you say is that since the other team says differences exist and therefore that’s some sort of rationale for the general scheme of things being skewed in favor of the male (as God said would happen and is re-accelerating in our time), our team must therefore deny what’s been obvious to most anyone throughout known history.

I do have empathy for your point of view, because yes I have written the hideous things the “church fathers” (yuck) have said about females. However, the winner is always the one who writes the history books, as they say. It doesn’t make them– or their Talmudic, Muslim, Hindu or secular counterparts–right. It just means for now, they’ve largely won. It won’t always be that way.

I can be quite confident in the fact that yes, I function on a very different level from any man I know (thank God) and that a lot of my emotional function falls into stereotype. It does not bother me, nor does it bother me that it’s being used against me. It just “is”, and right along with all the other nifty excuses for putting people “in their place”, someday it too will be no more.

And like a “typical female”, I’m wishing we could all agree and get along [grin], but I knew I was going to have to take responsibility for my post, so here is my best answer, as unsatisfactory and frustrating as it probably is to you, for which I apologize.

Kim 🙂