Well, one reason people are lost in this thread is because we were supposed to be arguing what Chazal meant with nd”k that was supposed to “prove” that women are inferior, but no one, including the men here who I expected more from, realized that we are talking about a verse that is an agadata and that was quoted out of context and not a something leading to halacha. But thanks to Bruriah for pointing us in the right direction…and this whole argument collapsed like a burst bubble.
Except for my original teina of people that have nothing better to do than find verses and quote them out of context trying to prove the inferiority of women, not once and not twice and not for weeks but at least for months, and maybe years. Why does it other me? 1. I’m an honest person and I hate when people spread lies or try to show how their krume views are supposedly dass Torah. That is sheker and I abhor that 2. Women deserve respect and not constant put-downs. I have been on a professional forum where people constantly spouted anti-Semitic views and I always stuck up for us Jews even though I could’ve said “who cares what these idiots think about us?” 3. It is my belief, and I have seen it in real life, that people’s opinions and beliefs influence how they act. And the opinions and beliefs that people hold of other people influence their behavior towards them.
And so, I protest the continous quoting out of context verses that supposedly show that Judaism holds women to be inferior.