I don't know, man.  I would have given my right arm to converse with St. Therese of Lisieux or St. Theresa of Avila or a large number of other women.  Women can have a great deal to offer.  I don't know that there's any strict prohibition on women making their thoughts known to men or even disagreeing with them.  Typically when men cop this attitude, it's a combination of 1) feeling threatened by women and 2) rigorous scrupulosity with regard to the Scripture passages cited.

Men can easily feel threatened if a woman is superior to them in some way.  So, if a woman has greater intelligence or virtue or some other quality, a man can feel inferior ... and that can be difficult when women are supposed to be their subordinates in the order of nature.  But we can look to St. Joseph there.  He had authority over God and the Mother of God and was, I'm sure, constantly aware of his inferiority.

Differences aside, credit where due. 

Who finds error in this quote? I don't see it.

I am rather sceptical of this idea about men feeling threatened by women who are more intelligent, etc. I have never seen a man say this about himself. Usually the accusation comes up in an ad hominem argument to avoid addressing the actual topic under debate. It seems to be a knee jerk response to any mention of male authority or superiority. I am not going to believe in these alleged threatened  men until a man tells me that is how he feels.

You'll likely be waiting a long time there ma'am, even if we are actually aware of being issued a feeling of any variety.

I am rather sceptical of this idea about men feeling threatened by women who are more intelligent, etc.

As you've already demonstrated, you appear to live under a rock.  I see it all the time.  You've never seen or heard of a Trad man mistreating his wife either.  Either that or the bar for "mistreatment" is so ridiculously high (just short of hospitalizing a woman?) in your mind that you can rightly say you've never seen it.

I was thinking much the same thing.  (If I understand DZP correctly.)  JayneK, even if a man could ever admit to himself that he feels threatened by women who are more intelligent, etc, he would certainly never admit it to others.  

   Thanks ma'am, but that "certain" bit takes it too far the other way; what that is essentially saying is that we're incapable of acting in humility, at least in this regard.

   Also, I wasn't even getting to the self-admission bit yet; the mere awareness of these... "feeling" things of which ya'll speak is often  a labor all unto itself.

   I'm "certain" that most any female, if upon reflection, knows this to be so; we certainly hear loads of hen-cluck about it for it to be otherwise.

I was thinking much the same thing.  (If I understand DZP correctly.)  JayneK, even if a man could ever admit to himself that he feels threatened by women who are more intelligent, etc, he would certainly never admit it to others.  

I agree it is unlikely. Nevertheless the people who claim to have observed this have not done so. It is not possible to observe feelings. We observe actions and deduce or project the feelings that underlie them. People who think they have seen men feeling threatened think that as much because of their own assumptions as because of what they have actually seen. 

I have seen many instances of someone dismissing a man's words with "You are just saying that because you feel threatened by women." And I have seen no sign at all that he actually felt this way.  In my experience, the accusation far exceeds the reality. 

The only man I know well enough for him to have shared his feelings on this is my husband. He is definitely not threatened by women having more intelligence, etc. than he does. 

Maybe he feels threatened by me.  ;D

   I feel threatened by dust-bunnies, for example; therefore I"d best not throw stones, which are also pretty scary now that I think about it so, time for my meds and then under the bed with me. 

Do you hate her for some reason?

Not at all.  I'm adamantly opposed to the ideas that she's promoting here on CI.  Men are not personal about such things.  In fact, I objected to the tradosaur who wanted her and other women silenced ... simply for being women.  If I would want her to keep silent, it's only because I consider her opinions to be harmful ... and not because she's a woman.  I very much prefer intelligent women -- and I married accordingly.