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Old 01-14-2008, 07:11 PM
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I want to say thanks to Davidius: certainly the video is simply satire and not even of women but of repressive attitudes towards them: but at the same time I want to qualify somewhat.
Most women I know are not very interested in theology in the abstract; and when they do talk about doctrinal things it is often very emotional. Initially this frustrated me trying to have conversations with other women at church esp. because I realized it was not due to the repression of their husbands or of our church etc, but to their own interests (and of course there are exceptions to this: please don't mistake me for saying something I'm not). Then I realized that most of the women I interacted with at church were doing ten times the amount of practical godly things in an hour that I accomplish in a week. Not in every case certainly but women do tend to be more motivated by practical and emotional 'reasons' than men do, and tend to want to talk about practical or emotional things. To recognize that is to acknowledge their difference from men but not their inferiority. In our day and age to suggest that women are not always as interested in intellectual subjects as their husbands seems like a slur because it sounds like you're saying that they don't measure up to men in this area, and the feminists have framed the value of women in terms of their being not equally valuable but equally the same as men.

Most of the people discussing theology on this board are men. If you talked with their wives many of them would talk about their kids more readily than about Calvin's sacramentology. They might even get up and leave the room while you talked about that and make you something to eat. If they interjected something it would in many cases be (as here) an argument from experience; often charged with emotion. I believe they deserve honor for this. I've come to appreciate them precisely for it. I learn a lot from them.

I do have female friends with whom I can discuss theology, again almost entirely on the learning end. Laura for instance of this board has read more Puritan literature than most men I know. But I don't undervalue my other dear friends who are raising seven kids in an admirably godly way, and would rather talk about daily struggles.
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