I myself feel uncomfortable with women serving as pastors. I find that they are inherrently liberal, and very prone to femininist theology. I also find their abilities as orators and councilors inferior.
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I like libraries. I like owls. I do NOT like spurious sexist assertions, especially when perpetrated by someone using a name that suggests he/she really should be a lot smarter than this.
There are plenty of nonliberal women; just check out the vast numbers of fundie women in church (or on the Net and quoted here, for that matter). There aren't a lot of feminists in that crowd; we even have someone quoted this month as saying that she'd rather that men stood up when she entered the room than that she had the right to vote!
As for women's abilities as orators and counselors, that's just tarring all women with the same brush again. There are plenty of women who are great speakers, and plenty who are not. There are plenty of women who are great at counsel, and plenty who are not.
And here's another newsflash: THE SAME GOES FOR MEN, concerning all of the qualities you mentioned. People are individuals and deserve to be treated as such, not as mere stereotypes.
Might I suggest an Overgeneralization Award? Or would anybody care to suggest something else appropriate?
~David D.G.
So the studies which concluded that women are better at verbal skills than men while men are better at visuospatial skills than women had their results fabricated?
Yes, that's a general rule and not the case in every situation, but that doesn't make the opposite true.
And what about the Christian duty of preaching God's Word?
Oh, right, I forgot, women are supposed to stay in the bedroom, waiting for the man to have his way with her. My bad.
"I also find their abilities as orators and councilors inferior."
Women are poor orators? Um, yeah. I'm a GCSE English student, and I've done two speeches as part of my grade. I got an A* for both, and I got a perfect score for the second.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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