(It's not just all that that I have an issue with. I am not transgender. I have no desire to have a man's body. But I occasionally wish God had made me a boy cause I identify with them more than my own gender.)
Obviously, God has made individuals that are not as culture would classify as masculine or feminine. Jacob in the Bible was portrayed as less masculine than his brother. He helped out his mother at home while his brother went out hunting. Deborah was a Judge but also a warrior who led her people into battle. Point being, you can still be completely comfortable and thankful to be female even if God has designed you to be rougher than the culture desires. As I will explain in a minute, the Biblical view of women is not how you explained.
(Ever since I was 8 years old, I knew unequivocally that I did not want to be a mom. If a woman wants to be a mom, I'm fine with that. But there's a historical and modern societal obsession with motherhood that's always unsettled me.)
Speaking of history again, it is because of women that civilizations survived. The obsession was of survival. Wars was fought with who had more men. Hard labor needed men. Many tasks by how men are designed makes men better equipped due to muscle mass, testosterone, brain structure, etc. Woman and children survived by men protecting them. Boys were raised by women and boys grew up to be men who would take the place of men who died in war or the hazards of hard labor. Women are still extremely important today.
(And as much as I appreciate mother-and-child imagery, personally, I find the whole idea of pregnancy disturbing – specifically, the idea (especially in the pro-life camp) that my body is essentially public property and designed to be a tankholder. )
Essentially, it only takes watching a child wiggle in the womb, hiccup, kick, stretch, etc to realize your carrying a living child. The only difference is location. Once you know that baby is living, growing, and ready to meet you. It is nothing but evil to want to destroy that. (Statistically most abortions are done due to the fact the child was simply unwanted.)
(Furthermore, I hardly ever played with dolls or even toys in general. In books and games, I wanted to be the knight in shining armor. I wanted to be the hero, the trailblazer, the one who saved the day. But according to the Bible, at the end of the day, I will always be of secondary importance to men.)
As explained, women are heroes within their own right. To endure labor, to raise kids, and that is the only way we get those heroes who died on the battlefield, trailblazers, or those who rescue the weak. Women are found to be these as well and God doesn't say anything against that.
(Sure there are some good things that come with being a girl, but as much as I want to believe God loves both girls and guys, the track record in both the Bible and Church history leaves a lot to be desired.)
It really just comes down to design. Men out of design give something different to marriages, children, and their nation. They are designed differently so certain tasks without men and be very difficult for woman.
God loves both genders equally but designed them differently. When we know our identity as God designed then we begin to feel at home or excited to be who God made us to be.
Everything that comes with being a women do not fear or harness disgust. Embrace it, love it, and let it operate in God's design. We still have women soldiers, firefighters, and coal miners who are still awesome moms, wives, etc.
(I get it. Cultural context and original language matters. And just because people claim to be Christian and acting for God doesn't mean they are. But actions speak WAY louder than words. And even then, words can inspire either life or death. And based on what I've studied and what I see now, I'm sorry to say God's Word has inspired quite a bit more of the latter than the former.)
As always we do consider how the Bible is to be read and what it actually says. If it speaks love then those who claim to be Christian act in hate, it isn't the Bible that inspired it.
One must also weigh all the good Christians have done as well.
(For one thing, God apparently not only made women weaker than men – he made our bodies in such a way as to hurt us. Sure, it's a fallen world. )
Muscle mass sure but a lot stronger in pain management, the stress of raising kids, the ability to multitask as the womens brain is hardwired differently. Different strengths. This is why God designed marriage for different strengths to unite and build a more wholesome strength to endure the fallen nature of the world.
(But men no longer have to sweat to work. Women by contrast must still bear the pain of childbirth.)
Idk about that lol I sweat a lot at work and we do not see many women in my blue collar field. Blue collar work brings it's own type of pain. Child labor is definitely painful but both men and women in a fallen world do not have it easy. Most our military is men. Most law enforcement and most in blue collar work.
(Again, it's a fallen world. But because men are naturally stronger than women, we're rendered the punching bags on which they vent their petty rages – and bodies for them to abuse and assault at will. And when we complain about it, we're "too emotional," as if emotions are a bad thing.)
Well this is actually illegal and or not how God commands men to act towards women.
(Even if it was the ancient world, why did God have to be so accommodating to a slaveholding patriarchal culture? Why must he always be referred to as "He," or "Father" to begin with?)
God is He because of the masculine Hebrew and Greek language. God has mostly masculine words to describe Him. There are a few feminine words that are used like a mother nurturing her children which He does as well. Physically His incarnation Jesus was a male so in bodily form we say male.
(It's as if women aren't created in his image at all.)
Oh but you are. We are created in His spiritual image. Our souls and spirit sets us apart from the trees or animals.
(While I've since learned that the infamous New Testament passages don't say what we think they do, I shouldn't have had to do that learning in the first place (to say nothing of all the other sins the Bible is unfortunately prone to be used to endorse).)
We would have to study deeper in order to know what the passages are saying.
(It's one thing when nonbelieving men abuse women – it's a whole other diabolical snake pit when it's not just one Christian man doing it, but hundreds, as has proven to be the case the last few years. And don't gimme any of that "Oh, they weren't real Christians" nonsense. These men were simply living out what they believed. )
What they believed isn't Christian though. I know the Bible like nothing else and know for a fact if men are acting that way, they are believing something false.
(And no, I personally have never been abused. I don't have to be, to be so incensed when this happens – especially at this grand scale.)
I would be too.
(In short, however much God says he cares for me and my gender, I would by far prefer he SHOW it.)
You will see it as you live into your design. As for the ills of men, remember we do live in a fallen world. Free will, natural disaster evil, and demonic evil. If it isn't of God's characteristics then it isn't of God.
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