It seems to me that boys are always more likely to be the ones that refuse to get “out” of a game. For example, if we’re playing poison ball at karate it is always one of the males, young or old, that I see getting hit and either not being honest when no one else picks up on it or claiming that they weren’t hit.
Why is this?
I think it’s because they’re proud, somewhere there, on average (yes I’m saying “on average” so that if you’re getting your panties in a bunch because I’m making a generalisation note that I recognise that not everyone fits these categories), men are more proud than women. It could be that women would have been proud if it weren’t for the undeniable fact that hormones make us emotional and crazy. Lack of women pride could also be due to centuries of male oppression, which you just can’t deny – women weren’t allowed to testify in court, they weren’t allowed to vote, they weren’t allowed to get jobs, when they did get jobs they got lower pay for the same amount of work and so on.
Then again, it could be that males are just more competitive when it comes to games. Although I’ve seen a lot of aggressive gaming women, in fact netball and such sports tend to be more aggressive with females than with males (from my experience).
So on the oppression thing, why is it that I’m okay with being the submissive role in a marriage? Why is it okay, in theory (I say that because I’m probably not good at racticing this yet, maybe some day), for the man to have the final word in decisions but not tell me that I have to stay home all day and clean? Well, it’s because in gaining the privilege of leading the marriage he also gets the sacrificeprivilege of laying down his life for me, if need be. Like it says in Ephesians 5:
25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself…
The language is a bit flowery there but it’s pretty much what my husband promised to. It’s a big responsibility, loving like that. The least I can try to do is:
22Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
That’s pretty much where my train of thought ended before I had to relive it to write it down… back to PCR.
