XY Is Not XX
Theme of the Week: Your Winning Combination
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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Key Bible Verse: She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God's gift of new life (1 Peter 3:7). Bonus Reading: 1 Corinthians 11:11–12
Our chemistry corresponds in varying degrees to our primary family roles. Men have 15 times more testosterone than women. They are generally stronger and sweat more. This is good for men when they are out subduing the earth. Women have 10 times the amount of estrogen, which gives them greater endurance. They can endure more pain, and they live longer. This is good for women when they're bearing a child and raising it.
Men score higher in levels of aggression, dominance, and self-confidence, women in nurturance, empathy, and intimacy. Men take more chances and die sooner. Women are more cautious and stabilize their environment, creating longer life for all. Men are more direct and linear in their speech and reasoning, less concerned about the impact on others, whereas women are more indirect and connective. Men seek competition to greater degrees than women. Women seek cooperation in higher degrees then men. Men consistently score higher in math, science, and economics, women in philosophy, human relations, and verbal skills.
Why should these differences be so threatening? The issue isn't equality—that's a given. Nor is it about superiority and inferiority. It's about men being stronger than women and women being stronger than men in different and complementary ways rooted in creation.
—John Ensor in Matters of the Heart
My Response: What strength of my wife can I begin to savor instead of feeling threatened by it?
Thought to Apply: People who establish successful loving unions do so by letting the other person be a whole person, rather than forcing him or her to be only one-half of a whole. —Ari Kiev (psychiatrist)
Matters of the Heart (Crossway, 2007) by permission;{73, 73-74}
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