Gender Roles

“We badly need to raise our sons more like our daughter” –G. Steinham

This quote just sat up on the white board taunting me. My first thought, why would anyone agree with that? Then it hit me, not everyone recognizes the roles men and women are designed to have. I have heard so many feminist state that we all need to be equal and demolish these roles society gives us. Now I believe men and women need to be equal however I believe they need to be equal in a sense of opportunity not necessarily in the sense that men and women should be the exact same. Society didn’t create these roles, society has affected them yes and greatly implements them however society did not create them. Men and women are born with different traits and with these traits we are better at taking on certain responsibilities. Now this doesn’t mean that men and women cannot share traits or share responsibilities it just means that biologically we are more inclined to do different things.

 Our differences are actually a wonderful thing! Our two personalities once they come together create something so special. Men would be nothing without women and women would be nothing without men. “Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.” (Corinthians 11: 9) We need each other, we complete each other. This is because men have things women do not and women have things men do not. It is so perfect how God created us to need each other. This is the key to our eternal salvation and our progression.