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Joseph, subservience of women toward men is a goyishe cconcept, influenced by medieval Christian and Islamic rreligions. In Judaism men and women have DIFFERENT roles but it doesn’t necessarily make women subservient to men. In fact, in many places in the Torah and and Rabbinical writings men are encouraged to listen to their wives. And wives are told to listen to their husbands…

Basically in Judaism it is not one gender that is forced to be subservient to the other, rather compromises should be made in marriage and sometimes the woman (or women) should be listened to and sometimes it’s the man ( or men).

The problem with today’s society is not that women don’t want to be subservient to men ( thank God we outgrew that mentality). The problem is that women don’t respect nor appreciate their roles and constantly feel “deprived ” by their roles and they think they’ll be happier off taking on men’s roles. This is the liberal world today and it has by now gone the opposite way too with men taking on womens’ roles. This crazy mentality has rubbed off on our frum communities where women feel that they need to take on men’s roles. The Torah makes it clear that men and women are different and we need to respect our differences and fulfill our roles.