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Lilmod Ulelamaid
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Joseph, I just saw your last comment after I wrote my last comment.

I thought that was probably your reasoning and where you were coming from. I know from other things you have written that that seems to be one of your main objectives in the things that you write – that you feel (correctly so) that most people are too influenced by modern society and their hashkafos are coming from western society as opposed to the Torah. And your objective is that everyone’s hashakafos should come from the Torah. Which is a very important objective one (probably the most important objective that a person can have).

However, I am not sure that that relevant here. I think you should read my last post and think about it. I don’t think that Gofish is coming from a messed-up goyish hashkafa that there are no differences between men and women.

The reason why Feminism is less of an issue in the Bais Yaakov/Yeshivish world is because in the Bais Yaakov world they teach girls about the importance of their tafkid, and they don’t make them feel that it is a negative thing to have a different tafkid, so Bais Yaakov girls generally don’t have a problem with the fact that men and women have different tafkidim.

Feminism is a bigger problem amongst the more liberal Modern Orthodox because no one has ever explained to them the greatness of women’s role so they look at it as “less” and “bad” and to them all differences between men and women are something bad. If they understood the gadlus of women’s role, they would not feel that way.

I remember once when I was working in a very modern feminist seminary, and a girl asked me why in Aishes Chayil, it talks about the husband (“noda bashearim b’aalah”). I thought that she was probably coming from a feminist perspective and I was a bit nervous about what her reaction to my answer would be, but she actually was very impressed and thought it was beautiful.She had no problem with it – it was just a perspective she had never heard before.

A lot of times it’s about presenting things the right way. I’m not talking about apologetics -the Bais Yaakovs have no problem explaining to girls about the gadlus of their tafkid, and helping them to feel uplifted by it and not the opposite.