Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!rice!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu (Jenni Sheehey) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Sexism in the church?? (was: Re: Gay Ordination) Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 91 03:03:00 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Penn State University Lines: 39 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , mib@churchy.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) says: > >And, if the assumption is that being gay is inherently unhappy, or >disappointing, it certainly isn't any worse than being a woman in our >society. It's roughly on a par with being a member of any oppressed >group. This sort of offhand comment about how women are members of an oppressed group makes me curious... I am a woman (I guess, I still feel like a girl, but 22 is rather old for that... =) ) and I simply don't feel oppressed. I've been discriminated against every now and again, but I haven't ever noticed the types of systematic, entrenched problems that the word "oppression" implies. Since a Christian female friend of mine was having a problem with this subject recently, I decided to get some more opinions than just mine. =) (She, BTW, felt that her church and the Bible were inherently discriminatory and therefore could not be accurate reflections of a perfect God. This left two options: either God was not perfect, or the Bible was not actually about him. I pointed out a third... that she was not perfect, nor were the other members of her church, so it's possible that she was merely the victim of inherently sinful people--like myself and herself. =) ) Anyway, the point of this is: Do other Christian women feel that they are being treated in a less loving way because of their gender? Is this happening within Christian circles, out of Christian circles, or both? (You will notice that I said "In a a less loving way", not "differently". That was not an accident, because it's possible to treat someone differently, but treat them as well, IMHO) Comments? Opinions? --Jenni /-------------------------------------\ ******************************** | JMS111@PSUVM - Bitnet | * A kindhearted woman gains * | JMS111@PSUVM.psu.edu - Internet | * respect, but ruthless men * | These opinions are not the property | * gain only wealth. * | or responsibility of Penn State or | * * | the Center for Academic Computing. | * Prov. 11:16 * \-------------------------------------/ ********************************