As I said in another thread, confirmed by Myrna here, there seem to be more single females at CMRI.
MaterDominici said:
Now, I'd guess the "grown up Trad" group is probably pretty equal in men vs. women even if it might not seem to be so in any specific location. However, the convert group I would imagine is almost entirely male.
At my chapel a 16-year old girl just converted. Her friend from high school is one of the girls from our chapel, who brought her in, and she seems to be ultra-zealous. We also have another convert who is female, who I believe to have once been on this site :) We had a mother and daughter conversion also. When I say "conversion" I include from the Novus Ordo. We have two apparently single Jєωιѕн women who are converts, à la JayneK.
I don't see any evidence that more men convert from women -- in my experience it's the opposite. Women have a natural gentleness that makes them attracted to the flowers and incense and ceremony of the Church. Didn't Mary tell St. Bernardette that "No one comes to church anymore but old women," something like that? A surplus of young men is definitely NOT the problem. We need WAY more young men.
I think you're basing that on the number of vociferous single young men on the site. But "reality" is markedly different. Perhaps the women just don't like to post long screeds on the Internet.
I think when looking at things relating to the natural law, it's much easier for a man to move into Traditional Catholicism from whatever else than for a woman to do so. The woman has to rewrite much more of what she's been taught to be normal and her day-to-day life would see much more change in the process than the man's. She has to be willing to rewrite what she thinks it means to be a successful woman whereas for the man it might be more of a fine tuning.
Excuses excuses. I'm glad you ascribe HUMILITY mainly to males -- since that's what you're talking about -- but I'm not sure it works like that.
I do agree that those who grew up trads are not as zealous as converts, generally speaking. I often feel a great distance from the trad families, because sometimes it feels like the church is more of a social club for them, like at my chapel the younger people stage musicals ( not in the church itself, mind you ) and so on. This kind of activity could not be further removed from my apocalyptic frame of mind, though I do realize that life goes on, you can't just stop playing sports, having barbecues, doing normal things, etc.