There are those in Christendom who would have us believe that leadership is a gender trait specifically tied to masculinity. While they may grant that women may show a lesser type of leadership that is sufficient for women and children, they hold strongly that only males have an inborn ability to lead the world or large groups of people.
In reality not all men want to be leaders or take the lead in
every situation. And not all women want to have a ceiling placed on
their arena of life. They are not happy or secure trusting masculinity
as "lordly". Human beings are diverse. Some are visionaries, and dream
of philosophical revelations, whether male or female. Some are content
being the supporters of others keeping life afloat, whether male or
female.
Even in the animal kingdom and the insect, fowl, and fish kingdoms,
sexuality is not limited to certain traits, with the sole exception of procreation. In other creatures according
to what they are (dogs, cats, elephants, bees, whales, pelicans, etc.)
males tend to this and females to that. But there is nothing
universally claimed as only male territory and other things universally
claimed as only female territory.
And what is truly unique about humans is that we can be anything. We
can be crafty like foxes, have a memory like an elephant, be monogamous
in heart like a whale, etc. The only truly "free" and uniquely
adaptable creatures are humans.
This leaves me to classify those humans who wish to claim a limitation
of abilities on gender (other than propagation) to be foolishly lacking
in the understanding of the gift of being human. In their fear of
diversity they unknowingly seek to recreate the human as a new sort of
breed of creature instead of seeking to understand God's real gift to
the human in being created in the image of God.
TL
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