Paul vs Women

Even in my most intense bible thumping days I had problems with Paul.
The guy HAD to dislike someone didn't he? He started off being against every Christian and persecuted them to his fullest, and when he was turned around by the bright light out on the gravel road he stopped killing Christians but he had to start at least verbally assault some people, so he picked women.

I don't care that much any more but the last couple of days it has caught my attention how horribly wrong he was in his descriptions on women, and if you bring it to the point kind of assaulting Christ even.

Let me explain.

But before I do, this has nothing to do with men hating, feminist propaganda, or any thing of that sort, just a plain notice of every day family life and also a salute to all the wonderful women I work with and see in my surrounding.
Also, it has to be said that my husband leaves it up to me to take care of a lot of things, not because he's lazy but because I'm better at it, as I leave things for him to be in charge of that he's better at. Sometimes it feels like I'm very much better at a lot of things, but in the end of the day he takes care of me and I would not be without him!

Since I live in the center of the Bible Belt I find it even more confusing that families live in a dynamic so totally in collision with Paul's teachings.


Paul claims women are the weaker vessel. Maybe if you count muscle mass, but that would be the only category women are weaker than men.

Here more than any where I've lived before are women in charge of almost everything. The women I work with are super women.
They have the full responsibility over the family, the checkbook, the house maintenance, home work, after school activities, shopping for every day needs for not just herself, but for husband and kids.
She's in charge of planning vacations or recreations.
Her day start before anyone else in the family and ends way after everyone else have called it the day.
And if that wasn't enough work to do at home, she's also helping out with the "man's responsibility", putting food on the table, by working outside the home as much or more than the man. If the woman of a family would vanish the whole family would go extinct with in days.

Paul also uses the picture of the family to describe the relation between Christ and Church. He says Christ is the head of the church as the man in the head of the family...

That's what I think is almost insulting Christ...