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Jemimah
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What a book! Dense but interesting. So far, Favale has talked about her history of being a feminist, and is very honest about her shortfalls when she was caught up in feminism over Christianity. She is clear that feminism and Christianity align, but it has to be led by scripture and ultimately Jesus.
— Oct 14, 2025 10:19PM
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Jemimah
is on page 123 of 248
Very interesting. Favale talks about biology and how that defines gender. A controversial take nowadays, which is hilarious. She's also honest about her previous misconceptions that gender is more of a construct.
I will say, at the end, Favale, being a Catholic, shares a rather, unique perspective about Christ. All to do with Eucharist. If you know you know.
— Oct 21, 2025 12:02AM
I will say, at the end, Favale, being a Catholic, shares a rather, unique perspective about Christ. All to do with Eucharist. If you know you know.
Jemimah
is on page 100 of 248
This chapter blew my mind! Fevale talked about society's disconnect between a woman and her fertility, and the overall assumption now that a woman should be sterile by default. She mentioned the origins of the transgender movement and contraction. Seriously, mind blown! 🤯
— Oct 18, 2025 09:40PM
Jemimah
is on page 73 of 248
An interesting but technical chapter. I found myself constantly looking up words, so a slow read, but a good one. Favale talked about the different types and waves of feminism, their ideologies and authors that promote them. Also How mainstream feminism often drifts from Christianity. Very good, and quite controversial in our pc culture.
— Oct 16, 2025 12:37AM
Jemimah
is on page 45 of 248
Again, such a good chapter! Favale talks about the creation story in Genesis and how it parallels to other creation stories. She then talks about Adam and Eve, and the fall. Again, many good quotes!
— Oct 14, 2025 11:56PM
Anyway, some gems from the first chapter:
"Differences between men and women have too often been used to justify a strict hierarchy of value and roles between the sexes. In the effort to reject this, feminist thought has typically regarded sexual difference itself with hostility and has downplayed difference in order to affirm equal dignity."
"There is ample room, and a great need, for an authentically Christian feminism. This is the “new feminism” John Paul II called for, a feminism that reclaims women’s dignity and does not simply replicate masculine modes of domination."
"I am not satisfied with simplistic accounts of feminism’s influence, accounts that either demonize feminism (sometimes quite literally) or overly glamorize it. Like most things in this world, especially most philosophies, there is in feminist thought a mixture of good and bad, truth and falsehood."
"My faith had been hollowed out from the inside, but because a thin outward shell remained intact, I did not face the reality that I was a Christian in name only. In belief, I was agnostic; in practice, an atheist."
"At some point, that flipped, and I was living on a different foundation, looking out the window at Christianity from afar. That shift is what caused my Christian faith to deteriorate, because the foundation of that faith had been displaced."
"It is a sad paradox that a movement centered on the rights of women has led us to this curious juncture where the very definition of “woman” is under fierce dispute."