We'll back in a 2001 Gallup poll.

Respondents were asked to attribute the description emotional to one of the two sexes.

Was emotional truer of men or of women?

Of course 90% said emotional was truer of women.

Surveys like this one feed an old stereotype and it's a very old stereotype, at least

as old as Aristotle that says, the pink brain is more emotional and the blue brain is

more rational.

But does such a dichotomy hold true in scripture?

Today's question is from an anonymous woman, Hello Pastor John, it seems there's a constant

narrative in our culture here in the West that women are hyper-emotional, irrational,

crazy, incomprehensible and almost intrinsically unreasonable.

Attributes such as rationality, reasonability, and emotional stability are typically attributed

to men.

Unfortunately, I hear the same narrative from brothers in my church.

I have to feel I can't speak up because if I spoke up I would just simply reinforce

this narrative.

So can you help me outline the problem with this narrative?

How should a renewed mind address this caricature?

Is emotional woman versus rational man a biblical dichotomy?

There are three things that I might be able to squeeze into this episode that I think

need to be said, number one.

This narrative is not the only one that is prominent in the West.

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