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It is sometimes difficult to keep up with our changing culture. How some people hear and read things is often at great variance between people of differing generations and those more or less sensitive to varying views about human nature and morality. A Texas school district has removed a quote that was painted above lockers at a middle and elementary school after the quote sparked criticism online this week. It reads:  “The more you act like a lady, the more he’ll act like a gentleman.”

It was argued that it perpetuated “horrible gender stereotypes, shaming women, sexism, misogyny, and discrimination.”  Is that how everyone sees it?

Just curious as it was reminiscent of a quote from the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen who wrote in LIFE IS WORTH LIVING:

“When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.”

He was also once purportedly cited at a dinner of saying, “Men will be as good as women want them to be.” Men seemed to understand and did not think it was sexist or pejorative of males.  I suppose it simply respected the assumption that men and women were wired somewhat differently.

Is this no longer regarded as a tenable proposition?

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