If you know that women take things personally and get upset, why aren't you taking that into consideration when dealing with women?
I have not been arguing with you. I have been making a point to avoid addressing you at all. You have been following around my posts and saying mean untrue things about me.
I don't want to have discussions with you because I find it unpleasant but you aren't letting me avoid you. You are too rough for me so can't you please leave me alone.
Well, I apologize if my forceful style has caused you some grief. As you know, however, I strongly believe that your crusade has the potential to cause great harm. It's not personal. As I said, if I saw you, I'd say hello with a smile. But I know that your aggressive defense of corporal punishment by husbands against wives will condone, aid, abet, enable those Trad men who use subjection theology as an excuse to be derisive, disrespectful, and even abusive towards their wives. You say that you've never seen any of that. Well, I have. And I know how they're going to react to your posts ... by giving themselves and each other high fives over your defense, as they see it, of their abusive behavior. Heck, we even saw that with a couple of those guys on that Anonymous thread. They were exulting over your posts. I have seen way too many women suffering greatly with such men ... to the point of even questioning their faith, or at the very least their allegiance to Traditional Catholicism. Consequently, I am going to set myself very forcefully against this position. Now, if I agreed with it in principle -- which I don't -- even then I would ask you to tone it down. In addition, don't you realize that, when Trad Catholics start condoning wife-beating in principle, it makes us look really bad to those outside our little circle. If there's someone who might otherwise be inclined to look into Traditional Catholicism, he might get turned off by this kind of stuff and run the other way. I know, your objection is that truth is truth and it doesn't matter who gets turned off. To a point, yes. But there are considerations of prudence where it comes to the presentation of that truth. We don't defend the truth just for truth's sake. Truth is truth whether we defend it or not. We defend it because we desire to bring others to it and, to that end, it's very imprudent to aggressively defend corporal punishment against wives. You know that even if someone agrees to it in principle it would be sinful to practice due to prudential considerations -- you'd end up destroying the family, in jail, etc. So it's wrong and sinful to do this ... if just because it's incredibly imprudent. Likewise, it's wrong to go on a crusade defending this kind of behavior because it's imprudent vis-a-vis how it would reflect upon Traditional Catholicism. You argue that it's because you're fighting against feminism and upholding the male prerogative to be superior to women ... but the advocation of corporal punishment is not necessary to make that case. You can make the case against feminism in other ways.
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