Q&A: Attitude Toward Women in the Responsa
Attitude Toward Women in the Responsa
Question
Hello Rabbi, my friends and I follow the site and have noticed that when a question is asked by women, your attitude changes very much for the better. The question is why.
I argue that it’s because women are generally less rational, and therefore when they ask you, you elaborate; they argue otherwise.
Who is right?
Answer
I myself hadn’t noticed my gentlemanliness, so I can’t provide explanations. I also doubt that it’s true.
Discussion on Answer
I know it too, as do I myself.
It is known and famous among the enlightened people that in the site’s winter years, the Rabbi’s answers were broader than the sea, until the questions and arguments returned again and again until all lengthiness dried up from the earth.
It is also known and famous that the number of female questioners on the site is lower than the number of male questioners, as our rabbi wrote once and twice here in the responsa / in articles.
Perhaps the questions of female questioners are a novelty in the study hall, the site of Rabbi Michi, who renews your youth like the eagle.
Honorable Rabbi, it is very true. As someone who has been well acquainted with your responsa for several years, almost since the day this site was opened.
I also feel it clearly, and in my opinion it’s hard not to notice.