My experience in more than 25 years of adult involvement in church
leadership (Protestant, several different denominations - including some
formal study toward ordination) has been that male pronouns are treated
by many religious people as including women when work is being handed
out - but when privileges are being defined, suddenly "he" and "him"
definitely mean "males only."
Which of course is utter nonsense....
Nina Osier
Joel VanLaven wrote:
> My friend had some sort of record of lotr thtat we listened to when I
> was
> a kid. I didn't think it was that long but it might have been.
> Anyway,
> it left me with the greatest feminist impression because the one
> segement
> that I loved and can still remember today is when some evil bad demon
> or
> something meets ?his? doom at the hands of a woman:
>
> "Dost thou not know the scriptures? No mortal man may hinder meeee!"
>
> "But I am not a man, I am a woman!"
>
> "Aaaiiieeeeee" (basically a death wail from the bad thing)
>
> The voice of the evil thing was great, I can still hear it but not
> reproduce it. Anyway, I often think about that passage when
> people discuss the sexism in the word man/men meaning both males
> specifically and males and females generally.
>
> -- Joel VanLaven
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