Comments for Everyman - A Website for Men http://www.everyman.ca the world changes when we do Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:57:20 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Ladies and Gentlemen: Yes, there’s Gender Inequality in Social Ritual: Guess Who’s the Higher Gender… by Father Marker http://www.everyman.ca/ladies-and-gentlemen-yes-theres-gender-inequality-in-social-ritual-guess-whos-the-higher-gender/#comment-2 Father Marker Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:57:20 +0000 http://www.everyman.ca/?p=185#comment-2 I would like to argue that the habit of deferring to women first has its roots in the words of Jesus.

Luk 9:48 KJV – And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.

The tradition as you’ve obviously shown is that the greatest should be named first and the least named last. Jesus inverted this order so when I hear someone address the crowd as such I think of what Jesus said. Now given that the society we live in now has its roots based in a strongly christian society a couple of hundred years ago it would be fair from my POV to believe that the order of address is based around that paradigm.

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