May Helen sing http://youtu.be/QCrJ9Gs2JTo .

'Saint Timothy famously said ‘I do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man; she must be silent.’ '

Oh dear Andee at least get your facts right. It was actually Paul who wrote that.

Correct, runner.

>>Oh dear Andee at least get your facts right. It was actually Paul who wrote that.<<

Paul was writing to Timothy, was he not.

But the question is, do you consider "do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man" to be i) an instruction from God that every Christian should adhere to, lest they sin, or ii) a typical piece of paternalistic blather from an irrelevant old book.

Or perhaps somewhere in between? What say you?

That sounds like a sound practice to me Pericles.

Haven't you noticed that the world has only gone to pot, since we let the girls vote, & out of the kitchen?

Keep 'em barefoot & pregnant was the old royal navy way, & shiver me timbers, it did seem to work.

"In 1950s Australia, for example, I grew up accepting that women were inferior to men"

What utter crap! Girls back then were treated like little princesses and selfish, gossiping, whining little madams many were too. They did sweet bugger all, while their mothers did everything for them. Wouldn't even play sport, a girl was above all that.

Sugar and spice and all things nice, definitely no boy germs.

Girls were always what women made and raised. Never any challenge that the girls were the jealous possessions of highly territorial mothers - who were often jealous of the daughters, how about that? Heaven help any man who commented then or now. The Little Aussie Battle-Axe was always ferocious and territorial, but nowhere more than where HER girl was concerned. A Blue Heeler has nothing on her.

So how about women finally admit the obvious, incontrovertible fact? That neither men nor women, speaking about the very large majority of the population were ever 'privileged' and that as is so readily demonstrated by those past (WW1 and WW2 in particular) and later wars, remember Vietnam, boys and men were always the disadvantaged gender, to be the disposable sacrifice for women, with the added rationalisation that women were the producers and nurturers of children.

It was always men who did the lion's share of dirty, disgusting and dangerous work, and that still applies to this day. Think how hard and long was the struggle to win any slight concessions for work safety. Men were always 'privileged'? Phooey!

Thankfully in the country and sometimes in the cities (although Aus is over 98% urban), there were and are girls and women who were always independent and bucked the trend.

Many a country boy and girl was shocked by the slack-arsed girls in the city 'burbs. Princesses, and the Boomer Grrls still whine and demand their entitlements, and their dues from young women too!

Any wonder young women run screaming from the feminists. Where is that women against feminism site? Oh here,

https://www.facebook.com/WomenAgainstFeminism

Women Against Feminism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59mfkHQTydM#t=11

It always makes me smile when Feminists sneeringly allude to male "insecurity", if we're feeling insecure then by Feminist logic that means that the prospects for women must be extremely grim.