Striking

[klugspeck]

There are voices of progress and freedom in the Middle East.  The sooner we stop waging our war, plundering their resources, and interfering in their affairs, the sooner the fundamentalists that suppress these voices will lose their support.

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[hita526]

Wow, that was awesome. Though those voices of oppression are not limited to just the middle east. I had a fellow medical student - A FEMALE - tell me the other day that women should be kept to a minimum in politics because as a whole, we are more irrational, emotional, and incapable than men. When I confronted her about it later, she said that she is a CHRISTIAN and as a Christian she feels that it's the man's RESPONSIBILITY to provide for his family, and it's the women's role to be SUBMISSIVE to him. Of course, she claims, if your intellect is high enough (as hers is) you can be an exception to the rule. She just likes to see most people follow this traditional view of marriage. If it was worth my breath, I would've told her that she has a lot in common with the mullahs in Iran and the nutsos in Saudi Arabia.

[sunnydlita]

Ugh. I don't think LJ comments provide the space that this discussion merits, but I hope it's understood that there are dissenting opinions within Christianity, just as there are among Muslims. I do believe that God created men and women with differences, but not hierarchical differences.

I don't think God created women of high intellect to be exceptions to the rule. I like to think that women who subjugate themselves (either through restrictive dogma or through the kind of behavior exhibited by kept women and Bachelor contestants) are the exceptions to the plan God had in mind for women.