Davidius I'm certainly not arguing that women are dumb or don't have rational faculties. But what I experience is that the women I know are indeed more emotional than the men I know, and that most of them would consider for instance, the discussion that goes on on this board rather irrelevant. (Indeed several have told me so.) They are more interested in a practical than a 'theoretical' subject. They generally use their intellect to solve different problems and are generally more interested in what is more immediately relevant to those problems.

This isn't to say that most women I know can't explain imputed righteousness. They can. They just care more about it as an applied doctrine, applied in practical and emotional ways to daily circumstances, than 'intellectually' or in the abstract. I understood the point you were making to be that women were equally as interested in purely intellectual pursuits as men. As a generalization I would have to disagree: there are quite enough exceptions that to say 'women are necessarily less intellectual than men' is silly; but that women are usually as interested in intellectual pursuits as men isn't something I experience, or that I think many peoples' experience would bear out through life. As a defense of anyone's value I object to speaking in terms of being equally as intellectual because I don't think biblically, human value is based on intellectuality. But you might not have been saying that? (There should be a distinction made between being a rational creature -- that is possessing a rational faculty -- and being an 'intellectual'.)

Would you say that men as a whole have been given the position of rule and women that of nurture without regard to their created suitability? I believe not only the role of submission doesn't imply inferiority to men, but the general focus I have seen on more practical things, and in a more emotional way doesn't, either.

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Heidi
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