TL

Perspectives are interesting. As a woman hearing men who have set for themselves privileges in the church which they deny women, and who have a closed mind to the possibility of changing that, it reads as men who are closed to the value and equal worth of women. It is an arrogance that is deeply uncomfortable for some women to live around.

I remember some men from the 70’s who always spoke to women as “dear” and everything they said to us seemed to drip with an unspoken stance of the big and powerful patting the child like women on their dear little unknowledgeable heads. I was one of those women who finally became really irritated with that word ‘dear’ and forbid them from applying it to me. I noticed though how difficult it was for them to change their way of approaching women. They think women are inferior, no matter what they say to the contrary. It is how they treat the women.