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The sex ed book everyone needs to read.

Taking a break for a few days to mull over what I’ve read. Will return to it next Sunday! Very informative and eye opening book.

In Part 5, The Transfiguration of Weakness: The Incarnation, Hildebrand continues to do a great disservice to women AND men by lumping them into simple caricatures. Women have cried seas while men have cried puddles? Please. On the bright side, if one removes all of Hildebrand's ridiculous theories, we are left with a call to admit our weaknesses, forgive ourselves, and try again tomorrow.

Part 4, Woman: the Privileged Sex, would have been far less disappointing if Hildebrand had called it something along the lines of Examples of Exemplary Woman Christians. Hildebrand spent far more time degrading women, backtracking, then mentioning model saints as if they helped prove her point. She only left me feeling as if she didn't understand her objective to begin with.

It is incredible, to me, that someone with a master's AND doctorate in philosophy can use so many logical fallacies. Unlike P1 and P2, Part 3, From Paganism to Modern Values: Denigration of Woman, has some good points about secularism and materialism. It continues, unfortunately, with the trend of misunderstanding feminism and "emancipation of woman." It reads like an essay written the day before it was due.

Author probably should have lead with Part II, Arguments for the Privilege of Being a Woman. It would have made her points in PI much clearer. Although clearer, her "points" are still immature. "So-called 'biblical' scholars may know Aramaic and Greek but nevertheless radically misunderstand the divine message, because their 'scholarship' has warped their faith," (20). G-d can withstand reason if He is infallible.

It is clear that the author does not know the difference between feminism and misandry. In Part I, Arguments Against the Privilege of Being a Woman, Alice von Hildebrand is obviously against feminism, but many of Hildebrand's points come up IN FAVOR of feminism. Hildebrand names them to be what feminism stands against. I was relatively unimpressed by Hildebrand's arguments. It was, overall, sloppy writing.