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I have been struggling recently while doing my scripture study. I know that men sometimes ignore women who sound like women's rights activists, but I assure you I am not. In the scriptures you will find that for the most part, women are not given much attention as far as having any kind of authority. Instead, Paul wrote about how men are governed by God, and women are governed by men. So essentially, a woman is under the man and is not directly under God. Also, you read in Acts that women should not talk in church and in Timothy is says women should learn in silence and not teach. Well, before you write this off as "olden days" talk, realize that it's ALL OVER the scriptures so it must be something that is important or else why is it included? Another thing that I noticed was that, when referring to sexual sin, women do tend to get a lot of the blame. They are called whores, concubines, etc. but the men are not labeled. Instead, it's not that big of a deal if a man in the scriptures has concubines. He's not looked at as a whore. I just feel offended as a woman because I am frustrated with not understanding my role. If women are just for pleasing their husbands as it says in the scriptures, then why would God create us with brains just as smart as men? It would have been kinder to make us all ignorant of our situation. I do not expect to be given the priesthood. I do not think women should be the same as men. I just wish men in general would give women more credit and not get so cocky that they were born a man and not a woman. Unless you are a woman, you don't know how it feels to realize that you are limited because of your gender.