Comments on: More Than Just Leaving The Toilet Seat Down http://waynepark.com/2009/11/22/more-than-just-leaving-the-toilet-seat-dow/ WAYNEPARK.COM: meditations on faith | place | race Sun, 03 Oct 2010 02:53:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Wayne http://waynepark.com/2009/11/22/more-than-just-leaving-the-toilet-seat-dow/comment-page-1/#comment-604 Wayne Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:12:21 +0000 http://waynepark.com/?p=1383#comment-604 <a href="#comment-597" rel="nofollow">@elderj </a> hmm... this is not the first time I've heard about "the absorption of a sociological critique". I'm wondering however, does not this same hermeneutic come into play in issues of race and class? Is it not then a useful hermeneutic, and if so, why should women be excluded from the application of it? The prescription to love I think is an important one - the answer is not supplanting or dominating others in return, which is so often the tendency of protest movements. Christian feminism has constantly forced me to examine my own dominating urges... @elderj
hmm… this is not the first time I’ve heard about “the absorption of a sociological critique”. I’m wondering however, does not this same hermeneutic come into play in issues of race and class? Is it not then a useful hermeneutic, and if so, why should women be excluded from the application of it?

The prescription to love I think is an important one – the answer is not supplanting or dominating others in return, which is so often the tendency of protest movements. Christian feminism has constantly forced me to examine my own dominating urges…

]]> By: elderj http://waynepark.com/2009/11/22/more-than-just-leaving-the-toilet-seat-dow/comment-page-1/#comment-597 elderj Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:24:14 +0000 http://waynepark.com/?p=1383#comment-597 i refuse to leave the toilet seat down. I believe women are smart enough and strong enough to place the seat in the position they need it to be in... That being said, is not the cure for the human tendency towards sin the grace of God as expressed in his commands rather than the absorption of a sociological critique of gender constructed masculine oppression? I have no qualms with understanding myself as conservative in outlook and practice and am therefore all the more challenged to actively follow the scriptures command towards love since it is a corrective to my natural tendency to dominate (a tendency mirrored by women as well, but which is given quite a bit less attention). i refuse to leave the toilet seat down. I believe women are smart enough and strong enough to place the seat in the position they need it to be in…

That being said, is not the cure for the human tendency towards sin the grace of God as expressed in his commands rather than the absorption of a sociological critique of gender constructed masculine oppression? I have no qualms with understanding myself as conservative in outlook and practice and am therefore all the more challenged to actively follow the scriptures command towards love since it is a corrective to my natural tendency to dominate (a tendency mirrored by women as well, but which is given quite a bit less attention).

]]> By: .elise.anne. http://waynepark.com/2009/11/22/more-than-just-leaving-the-toilet-seat-dow/comment-page-1/#comment-594 .elise.anne. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:17:43 +0000 http://waynepark.com/?p=1383#comment-594 :- ) :- )

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