Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pixadv.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!wjh12!pixel!pixadv!cmm From: cmm@pixadv.UUCP (cmm) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: A biblical view of "male". Message-ID: <39@pixadv.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 17:33:20 EDT Article-I.D.: pixadv.39 Posted: Fri Aug 17 17:33:20 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 13:55:46 EDT References: <215@bolton.UUCP> Organization: Pixel Computer Inc., Wilmington, Mass. Lines: 46 > I hope that this information may be useful to help > explain that when God established the family arrangement, He > did not intend that the male have dominance, but headship > (there is a difference). Satan the devil is the one that is > responsible for the corruption of this loving relationship > that today causes many women to groan. > > Bill Duffy > GenRad > genrad!!billd I would appreciate your view of the difference between sex determined "dominance", and a religional mandated, sex determined, unquestionable "headship". I contend that any sex specific role pattern is intrinsically unfair and discriminatory. If a woman is not considered "worthy" of "heading" the family, then how can she possible be considered appropriate to head a company, or dictate the kind of medical care required by a patient, or pilot a ship, or to fill any leadership position? Once you have established *ANY* sex difference, then the rationalizations come from the powerful parties -- men -- to extend the rationalizations, and "protect" women as non-persons. Any religion that mandates a subordinate position for anyone based on their sex, or even their beliefs, is a religion that I can not partake in. I want to live in a world where my companion/lover is just as strong as I am. I want my daughters to have as much chance for personal life as I have. I want to live in a world of people. Not MEN, not WOMEN, not CHRISTIANs, not JEWs, not HINDUs -- but a world of people accepting each other as equals, and treating each other fairly. (If this belongs in another newsgroup (like net.flame), I am sorry.) -- ____________________________________________________________________________ cmm (carl m mikkelsen) | (617)657-8720x2310 Pixel Computer Incorporated | 260 Fordham Road | {allegra|ihnp4|cbosgd|ima|genrad|amd|harvard}\ Wilmington, Ma. 01887 | !wjh12!pixel!pixadv!cmm