i've struggled with this whole woman vs man thing. why do women have to submit to men? why did God make it this way? isn't it unfair? yah so what if the men love their women. why do we play the "lesser" role, the "supportive" role and not the lead, like forever relegated to the sidelines?
sometimes i question (especially during feminist classes), and i feel very angsty about it. and i feel like shucks man were we meant to be lesser than the men?!! then when i'm more holy pokey i just accept it. if God wants it this way, then it's this way. There is, after all, a nobility and a very very appreciable beauty to a woman's divinely designated role in this world.
in actuality, it's all about valuation.
the very idea that women, playing the supportive role, are lesser than the leading men is a construction. even this innate thinking that a supportive role is less important than a leading role is also a societal construction. who told us to think this way? generations of societal thinking. this is the way (many) societies place values on genders, and then we internalize them and reproduce them so that it's become a way of life.
BUT that is not the way God values women and men. the way He constructed it was totally different. yup, the men are to lead and the women are to support. the husbands are the heads of households and the wives are to submit. but God never ever said that submitting is bad or the leader will have greater eternal rewards than the supporter. only people around us and the societal values we grow up with tell us so (our capitalistic world). In the eyes of God, we are not valued according to whether we are male or female. His standards are very different from the standards that we are so accustomed to.
"You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
- Galatians 3:26-29
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well. i think maybe reading so much into things is bad for health. i mean, in a team/household, there has to be a leader and a supporter; thats how good teams function. and at the end of the day, good families bring up their kids to become good people. so maybe it isn't so important who the leader and who the supporter, but whether the leader can lead and the supporter can support, i.e, carrying out their roles. the questions to be asked here are: "what is the leader of a family? are men (in general) doing the job of a leader better?" and of course you've got to put things into context of the modern society (e.g, leader as in person making bigger decision (not necessarily))?
anyway some food for thought, do you think god loves himself more or loves you more? why did god choose his erm "offspring" to be a male? (in a christian context) could this slight gender bias be due to god loving himself a tad more?
hahahh hi friendie friend.
I'd say that God loves us more. because if he hadn't, i do not think he would have let His son (aka Himself) die for our sakes. if you can die for someone else, you probably love that person more than you love yourself rite?
haha and nope i don't think God made his offspring male out of bias-ness. since jesus is God himself, maybe God's male? haha then again maybe not maybe God has no gender.
we can ask similar questions. why was Jesus a jew and hebrew? so if i'm asian or european, God doesn't love me as much? why was Jesus poor? so if i happen to have a lot of money, God won't love me as much even when i've surrender my soul to him? i think the answer is no. we are not valued like that.
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