What is to be done to dismantle feminism? In employing logic against feminists, men or women, one may be accused of being aggressive, hateful, bitter, or some other negatively perceived personality trait. Are we left, as Vox would claim, with only rhetoric? Regardless, we should "maintain frame," maintaining our cool and using that to our advantage.
Last week there was a woman at a certain Facebook group who claimed that women need to have a greater voice in the Church. Is there any canon that prohibits a woman from speaking with the bishop, the priest, other baptized women or men? No. Then, what does she really want? Women to have authority over men, even though St. Paul explicitly prohibits this. While not going so far as to endorse the ordination of women, she did support women having some sort of authority within the Church, so that their viewpoints (or experience of Christianity?) could be heard. Never mind the fact that she was guilty of the apex fallacy, as not all men have a voice in the Church, only a select few. Never mind the fact that most of those in the bureaucracy of the local Church, those who head ministries and such at parishes and the diocese, are probably women. No, this would not be enough for her.
Can there be any sort of negotiation or reasoning with a woman who is blind to American ecclesial reality because of ideology? (One can ask whether she has a male SO, or if she is involuntarily single because of her personality, looks/body type, or both.)
With time maybe more will come to believe that St. Paul was right, rather than thinking he was culturally conditioned to prohibit women from having teaching authority in the Church.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Vatican State continues to embrace the language of the enemy:
Vatican News:
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And Vatican Radio:
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