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Old 01-14-2008, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Davidius View Post
I know that it is a joke making fun of condescending attitudes toward intellectual women, but I do want to say that it's a shame that the idea that "men are intellectual and women are emotional" has gained a lot of footing even in the Church.
That idea found tremendous impetus in the secular Enlightenment (I often point out to feminists that they can't use Enlightenment standards of reason for that point).
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