The role of women in the church

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Marie5890 said:
Please deliniate your response? 🙂

You don’t believe that stereotypes exist when it comes to gender?
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Stereotypes is a meaningless term. Misperceptions are common here. A boy will be a boy and be interested in what other boys, and perhaps what his father, are interested in. Generally, boys will be encouraged toward things that boys who become men will be doing. Girls who become women will be encouraged to be interested in things that primarily concern their future role as a grown adult. That’s why some girls are called tom-boys when they interest themselves in things outside the things that interest the vast majority of girls.

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Ed
 
edwest2 said:
Stereotypes is a meaningless term. Misperceptions are common here. A boy will be a boy and be interested in what other boys, and perhaps what his father, are interested in. Generally, boys will be encouraged toward things that boys who become men will be doing. Girls who become women will be encouraged to be interested in things that primarily concern their future role as a grown adult. That’s why some girls are called tom-boys when they interest themselves in things outside the things that interest the vast majority of girls.

Peace,
Ed
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Hardly a meaningless term when one has been on the receiving end of one 🙂
 
I thought of this thread again in light of the new federal ruling on “Plan B”.

We value motherhood so little in this culture (not just US, but all first world) that even those of us who are “pro-life” can often belittle or miss altogether the virtues of motherhood when the are expressed outside of physical motherhood.

When we talk about tenaciousness and faith and love, we are talking about virtues of motherhood. Those qualities are built into the feminine because she has the capacity to be a mother, even if she never is one.

That ability to hope against hope that Mary Magdelene and the other women showed at the foot of the cross, and at the resurrection is the magnified hope that every mother has - “my child will be safe, will return, will turn out well”. Expressed also by St Monica and every barren woman in the Bible who prayed for a child.

Yes, men also show that fierce love, but on the whole it is a feminine quality - even colloquially we call it “mother bear” and not “father bear” - and it is a quality shared in women who are not physical mothers as well.

As I said earlier on this thread, you can see the difference even between girl and boy children. Some perhaps attributed to upbringing, but those girls who play in the dirt still show it.

My sadness is that with the culture of death we also have a culture of death for motherhood. The beautiful language used by our current Holy Father and many, many popes before him will be less and less understandable as our culture kills off not only children, but motherhood as well.
 
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My sadness is that with the culture of death we also have a culture of death for motherhood. The beautiful language used by our current Holy Father and many, many popes before him will be less and less understandable as our culture kills off not only children, but motherhood as well.
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I’ve never been able to understand how people can hear the kinds of things the Pope said (and other Popes, Scripture, etc) about Children and Motherhood and not be completely moved and changed by it. I’ve come to the conclusion that it must come down to people purposly ignoring the words so they never really do hear them. Maybe they have an inkling deep down that if they did really listen they’d be faced with the Truth.

I’m a father of a one year old daughter, and I’ve become far more aware of issues regarding women and the Church since her birth. She’s really brought home the reality of it for me.
 
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