“I mean, wouldn’t that really negate their purpose in wanting to do the thing in question, being that the premise of feminism is to assert feminine identity and capability?”
I think I mentioned something like this in the other thread, and it’s really something I never understood. I mean the whole point of feminism, IMHO, is girl power. Girls are SMART! Girls are AWESOME! Girls have the XX factor!
Personally, I have no desire to be a rabbi, and to be totally honest, I can’t really relate to that desire in others so well- but I can understand why women want to be rabbis, and I think it’s got a lot more to do with what OOM is saying than what people think it is. It’s like, you’re a kid, and your friend says there’s no way you can swing as high as he can. So you decide you want to swing, because you know you really can, but you’re only allowed on the swings for 30 seconds at a time to prove it. The point isn’t that women can’t be RABBIS- okay. But women also don’t have a lot of platforms- Rebbetzin Kanievsky is the exception, not the rule, and even she didn’t have a fraction of the public effect that a rav can have. Perhaps she didn’t want it- nobody can fault her for that, and that’s her business. But to then turn her into an example of how egalitarian Judaism is is ludicrous.