There are those today who think that there is no difference whatever between men and women, and that both should be treated 100% equally.
Legally, for instance, men and women are treated as equals in some respects -- such as for jury duty or as judges -- while in divorce and so-called "family" courts the emphasis usually favors one of the sexes over the other (ask any man who has been through this ringer what he thinks about it).
There are those, also, who say that there are very great differences between men and women, and that it is quite impossible to treat them equally.
Some accuse this of merely being an excuse for one sex (usually the male sex is assumed to be "guilty" of this) trying to dominate or subjugate the other sex (presumably the female sex).
Others see this as an attempt by the stronger or more capable sex to protect the weaker and less capable sex.
Separate And Different But Mutually Beneficial
Combining both male and female can provide society with the best of both perspectives and abilities, particularly when it comes to the provision, care and nurturing of families, businesses and the like.
However, there are also aspects that, if the uniquely male and female roles are attempted to be reversed, nothing good can result from the consequences.
Its rather like a statue where the materials of iron and clay are combined.
The steel makes a good infrastructure or skeleton, around which to form and shape clay.
No artist would attempt the reverse, knowing full well the strengths and weaknesses of the two different materials.
Clay which, although like steel, can be shaped and then hardened in a furnace, cannot match the strength of steel, and is subject to breaking under pressure.
While steel, although strong and resilient, tends to rust or degrade when exposed to the elements, unlike properly painted, glazed ceramics, pottery or adobe.
In their proper place, and given the right care, each can endure and provide useful purpose and even aesthetic pleasure for many decades or centuries.
Outside their respective and most natural roles, however, each can quickly degrade and become useless, or even dangerous.
In relation to steel and clay men and women have very much the same strengths, weaknesses and differences, in many respects.
Take their emotional and physical natures as a case in point.
So Alike Yet Worlds Apart
Females are subject to emotional ups and downs, during childbearing years, as a result of changes in hormones as their bodies go through periodic cycles of preparing for impregnation, or purging afterward.
During their purging stage, or menstrual periods, women are more emotionally volatile and are physically capable of breeding or spreading viral or other types of contagion related to blood and its contents.
Look at how any hospital staff are positively paranoid over the possible hazards of what are labeled "biological wastes" which have come into contact with either blood or other bodily fluids.
Once upon a time these were generally recognized, by more alert and aware generations in antiquity, as being a state regarded as unclean.
Uncleanness was once understood to be a potential cause for spreading contagion, disease, leprosy or other serious, debilitating, disfiguring, or possibly even fatal conditions.
To avoid the possibility of physical or emotional contamination, women generally isolated themselves during such times, which amount to approximately one fourth of each month, during the majority of their adult lives, until they reach the age of menopause (which can come earlier or later, depending on the individual).
Much to the consternation of some modern women, men appear to breeze through life without a care in the world. However males often carry heavy burdens both physically and emotionally, which many women tend to either fail to acknowledge or appreciate.
Sexist or Singular?
What most seem to neglect or forget is that, just as each sex has its undeniable physical differences, one sex is strong in some areas while weak in others, while the other sex is usually the exact opposite.
Take childbearing or rearing as a case in point.
Despite fictional attempts to depict this, no man is equipped mentally, emotionally, or physically to carry, nurture and deliver a child from impregnation to delivery.
Neither is a man qualified to adequately care for and feed a newborn child, as nature intends, by either breastfeeding or otherwise caring for its every need from infancy into adolescence.
Some men might be capable of feeding, continually cleaning up after, and teaching small children, but this is not something for which they are built or at their best.
High pitched crying, for instance, can tend to grate on a man's nerves to the point of nervous exhaustion, when the fight or flight reflex automatically kicks in as a self-defense mechanism.
How many kindergarden or first grade teachers are male? Not many, if any, is the truthful answer.
Likewise, women are uniquely qualified in each of these areas, emotionally, mentally and physically, to deal with all of these situations without a hitch.
Women, on the other hand, are simply no match for most men in the strength department, regardless of how modern fable, fiction "entertainments" like to portray the opposite.
This is why you never seen women in the same ring with male boxers or wrestlers, or playing contact sports such as the American version of football, unless the man has one arm and leg tied behind his back, or special rules are in place to protect or favor the female sex.
In a "fair" contest, a man can be expected to best a woman in weightlifting, track, or just about any other similar sport where size, weight and strength determine the results.
Equal or Not?
Mentally, however, many falsely believe the sexes to be equals, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Men often must defer to a woman's memory when it comes to dates, events and the like, such as anniversaries.
Women, likewise, can be easily distracted with what to men are often extraneous details of style, color of clothing, hair or furnishings, and similar outward appearances, while missing the important details of number, intent, perspective and a detached, bird's eye view of situations and events.
While men tend to remember statistics, particularly those related to sports, hobbies or similar occupations, women tend to recall details of a more delicate and detailed nature related to such skills as homemaking, decoration, dressmaking, or cooking, and particularly in regard to relationships and childrearing.
Not that men are incapable of these things, the majority are simply not so inclined, any more than many women are inclined to join in mostly male-oriented interests, such as stock car racing, contact sports, weight-lifting, computer programming or mathematics, or games of skill and cunning such as chess, hunting, fishing and the like.
There are of course notable exceptions, none of which break the general rule.
Till Death or What?
Due to their more emotional natures, women are also subject to changing their minds and opinions, sometimes based solely on instincts, or the subtlest of implications, feelings, emotions, or even outward appearances into which motives, intentions or actions are implied, suspected, or apprehended.
Women also tend to attach themselves to situations, in sometimes fierce and stubbornly selfish determination, such as attempting to sequester and insulate their mates from the attractions and lures of other females.
Because women later tend to regret choices, decisions and their promises made upon these -- made in all sincerity at the time -- changing their minds and thereafter unalterably proceeding in entirely different directions than they originally intended, most divorces are initiated by women who are unhappy, dissatisfied, or otherwise disillusioned by their formerly seemingly perfect and idyllic choice of mates or partners in marriage.
Men, on the other hand, tend to be stubbornly set in their habits, are often careless about the condition of their surroundings, and are generally less concerned with personal hygiene, manners and the like.
While even decisions made in haste or under the emotional lures of either lust or love, are less likely to be regretted or altered by males, although their interests may remain varied and not tied down to a single situation or individual, despite promises or appearances to the contrary, often their relationships may include fornication or what is generally regarded as adultery today.
Although they might go along with divorces for the sake of convenience or out of imposition of legal sanctions, men can be just as content inside or outside legal marriages with the opposite sex, which can tend to irritate and alienate many a female attempting to confine men to purely monogamous relationships.
Polygyny or Sequential Polygamy?
The fact that there are more females than males born and surviving infancy (absent any deliberate attempts to abort or otherwise control the natural order of creation, as in China), who also tend to be longer lived than their male counterparts, ought to inform women that such attempts are doomed to fail in many instances.
For as surely as they seek to be the sole female interest in a man's life, so also are all the other competing females, many of which would be doomed to live lonely, frustrated lives devoid of children and the joys associated therewith, where it not for men being somewhat more polygynous in their interests than women.
Many women, on the other hand, if devoid of any moral upbringing, training or convictions against this, tend toward polygamous relationships either before, during or after marriage, rarely concurrently and usually sequentially.
Men rightly object to this intuitively, usually without knowing specifically why this is wrong or dangerous.
Factually, it is something like many men standing in line to kiss the same woman, one after another, like sometimes engaged in at fairs, to raise funds for charities, or like actors and actresses do as a public display.
Most men, in their right mind, recoil from the very idea of kissing another male, without realizing that a female's lips can be a mere conduit or intermediary for doing just that.
Likewise, no man of sane and sound mind would choose to put on a used condom, yet many essentially do just that by having sexual intercourse with a promiscuous woman, especially one who is already married to another man.
In just such regrettable ways are sexually transmitted diseases spread throughout a careless and licentious society, resulting in illness, disease, and even birth defects, and untimely deaths.
The Pure Truth of Telegony
What genetic research should have revealed to anyone paying close attention, as well known among horse and dog breeders, among others, is that offspring can bear the genetic makeup of more than one male.
This happens through a genetic process known as telegony, which western "science" tends to disparage and deny, discarding the truth in their pursuit of fictional "perfection" by embracing such evils as abortion and fetal cell research, euthanasia, genetic mixing of species and similar manipulations, without understanding or concern over the likely disastrous consequences.
Telegony means that, once a woman absorbs into her bloodstream male genes from the process of mating, she can pass these genetic traits on to her future offspring, even though engendered by a different male or mate.
So, it turns out, long before "science" ever thought of trespassing the "everlasting covenant" ("Isaiah" 24:5) of each species being created after its own kind (Genesis 1:11-12, 21, 24-25) by genetically modifying (perverting) things by mixing them with different kinds of organisms than the Creator intends, He made women the perfect "test tube" or "petrie dish" in which to incubate new genetic strains, provided we all honor His commandments to reproduce only after our kind and the sanctity of marriage!
Anciently this fact was recognized scripturally, in commanding a man -- regardless of whether or not he was already married to another woman -- to engender children for a deceased brother who died childless, by mating with his sister-in-law for the purposes of preserving an inheritance and the family line (see: Deuteronomy 25:5-10; an act that while the brother is still alive is forbidden and subject to being cursed; cf. Leviticus 18:16, 20:21).
Although many "New Testament" believing Christians would be loathe to admit this, such was the relationship of one of the chief ancestors of the Savior, as told in the book of "Ruth" concerning the Movabitess and Bovaz ("Boaz"), who were the great-grandparents of King Da'avid, from whom the Savior was a direct descendant, and heir to both the throne and priesthood (through his male parent -- although not his physical forebear, having no human father -- who went on to father other children by his wife Mariam, after the Savior's birth).
Perhaps the Savior's younger brothers and sisters likewise bore in their genetic makeup some traces of the masculine but nonhuman parentage of the Savior (which gives evidence to the male nature of the Father in heaven, for unless this is true no male chromosome could have existed, and the Savior would not have been male).
There being no way to determine at this late date the origin of any such genetic makeup from a non-human source this is, naturally, only speculation and certainly nothing to base any form of racist claims of "superiority" upon, as some are wont to do (particularly those who consider themselves "blue bloods" or descendants of the Savior through some alleged fictitious relationship with various prostitutes, after a preposterous supposedly faked death and resurrection, as some today actually teach and believe).
Spiritual and Social Differences
Another way in which a woman differs from a man, in point of fact if not recognized by modern lawless men and women today, deals with the spiritual and social aspects of the different sexes.
By virtue of having been made directly by the Creator who "created man in His own image," as a man, "in the image of the Almighty One he created him" (Genesis 1:27), it was concerning the male that one Creator spoke with the other prophetically, saying: "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all creatures that move along the ground" (verse 26).
Historically it was men alone who have pioneered in all of these activities, and carry them on almost exclusively to this day.
Just as historically, it has been women who bear and rear all the children.
Women belong on the front lines of armies, in men's clubs, on fishing boats, wrangling cattle or breaking horses, for instance, about the same as men belong in an all-women's athletic association, rooming establishment, women's clubs, nurseries, preschools, and other traditionally all-female domains.
The Creator did make a difference between men and women: "male and female He created them" (verse 27), and in blessing both sexes "said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground'" (Verse 28).
You will notice He did not command them to rule over one another, or other people for that matter.
That is something best left to the discretion of the Creator who made us, and alone knows what is best for our interests (what results in blessings, rather than curses).
Cursed Rebellion
When men and women reject the Creator's rule over them, opting instead to rule over one another, that is precisely where every evil has always originated, such as when Eve enticed her husband Adam into partaking of the fruit from the forbidden tree of the knowledge (science) of good and evil (Genesis 2:16-17, 3:6)!
Unlike modern foolish men and women, the adversary well knew the differences between the sexes, which is why he spoke only to Eve, knowing he could readily deceive her and that, using her newly sinful feminine wiles, she would then entice the man into sinning also (Genesis 3:1-5).
The man was the primary target, just as the second Adam the Savior was the ultimate target of this attempt, trying either to prevent or abort His eventual success over, and final defeat of, the adversary.
While the woman, by her own admission, was deceived (Genesis 3:13) the man knew better, and was not deceived, but wrongly allowed the woman to persuade him against his better judgment, to commit an act he knew to be against the Creator's Law and Commandment (verse 12)!
It was the adversary and his lie that was ultimately responsible, of course (verse 14), but the woman's curse was to suffer pain in the thing she desired most (sex and childbearing), and that her husband would rule over her (Genesis 3:16).
The man's curse, of course, was to work and labor long, hard and painfully, by the sweat of his brow, to grow food from a soil cursed to grow painful thorns and thistles, another largely male-only endeavor (verses 17-19).
The curse upon both man and woman was that they would eventually die and return to the dust from which they were created (verse 19).
Blessed Submission In Service To One Another
Even in the New Testament dispensation, wives are told to "submit to your husbands as to the Sovereign. For the husband is the head of the wife as the Messiach is head of the congregation -- His body -- of which He is the Savior. Now as the congregation submits to the Messiach, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything" (Ephesians 5:22-24).
Lest women think this is a purely "sexist" notion, the converted husband is told to: "care for your wives, just as the Messiach cares for the congregation and gave Himself up for her, to make her sacred, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word [of pure truth], and to present her to Himself as a radiant congregation, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but sacred and blameless.
"In this same way husbands ought to care for their wives as their they do their own bodies. He who cares for his wife cares for himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it; just as the Messiach does the congregation -- for we are members of His body" (Ephesians 5:25-30).
The author concluded: "However, each one of you also must care for his wife as he cares for himself, and the wife must respect her husband" (verse 33).
Granted, this seems to be against carnal human nature, but then so are most things of the Spirit, such as the Commandment this reflects: "care for your neighbor as yourself" (Leviticus 19:18), and it's corollary New Testament edict: "Care for your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" ("Matthew" 5:44).
Reverse Sexism
If only the women who tend to look upon males as some sort of sexist "enemy" could live up to this sort of caring concern, and if only men who tend to look upon such women as sexual objects would cease preying upon and instead pray on behalf of such women, for their forgiveness and salvation, what a different world we would now live in as a result!
Likewise, in congregational meetings, Paul taught in accordance with the Spirit of truth: "As in all the congregations of the elect, women should remain silent in the congregations. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the congregation" (I Corinthians 14:33-35).
Too many today think this is a sexist attitude, however the reason was to prevent disorder and preserve peace (verse 33).
As Paul warned: "If anybody thinks he is a prophet or spiritually gifted, let him acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Sovereign's Command. If he ignores this, he himself will be ignored" (verses 37-38).
This author chooses to not be ignored by his Creator, and so should you!
Carnal men and women who do ignore this are thereby in the process of fulfilling an ancient prophecy for today:
"Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.
"As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people your leaders lead you astray; they turn you from the path" (of truth and righteousness; "Isaiah" 3:10-12).
Best of Both Sexes
Paul also taught Timothy: "A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. For I do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man; she must be silent. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But women will be saved through childbearing -- if they continue in belief, concern and care, and sacredness with propriety" (I Timothy 2:11-15).
To Titus, Paul likewise wrote that older women in the faith should "train the younger women to care for their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one can malign the word of the Almighty One" (Titus 2:4-5).
And to: "encourage the young men to be self-controlled, setting them an example in everything by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us" (verses 6-8).
Finally, Eben ("Peter") -- an Apostle personally called and commissioned by the Savior -- taught the same things:
"Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.
"Your beauty should not depend upon outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothing. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great value in the Almighty One's sight.
"For this is the way the sacred women of the past, who put their hope in the Almighty One, used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, like Sarah who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear" (I "Peter" 3:1-6).
Eben also wrote:
"Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers" (verse 7).
Long Live The Difference Between The Sexes
To everyone, Eben admonished:
"Finally, all of you live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, caring as brethren, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. For:
"'Whoever would care for life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
"'He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of Yahveh are upon the righteous and His ears are attentive to their prayers, but the face of Yahveh is against those who do evil'" (I "Peter" 3:8-12; and Psalm 34:12-16).
As the Apostle Eben continued:
"Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? But even if you suffer for what is right, you are blessed.
"Do not fear what they fear; do not be frightened. But in your hearts set apart the Messiach as Sovereign..." (I "Peter" 3:13-15).
So as you now know, the "war of the sexes" -- like all wars -- is purely a carnal one, with no real basis for existing anywhere but in the feverish and biased imaginations of people who are opposed to the ordered Law of nature and nature's Creator.
For as the French might say, concerning the difference between males and females, in regard to both sexes: "Viva la differénce!"