Hi Georgia,

Although your piece is on the nature of gender and God, I do want to comment on this statement you made:

"Rather than a continued concentration on whole-brained development or balance, as our ancestors learned to read and write through symbols, they began to exercise and develop the left-brain and encourage their offspring to do the same.

Mathematics and science follow suit, requiring pragmatic “proof,” replacing faith and mystery."

As a scientist, I completely disagree with your statement that science has replaced mystery or even faith, not to mention the idea that it's more masculine because it requires concrete objectivity over the 'feminine' attributes.  Science deals with mystery because the whole nature of science is exploration to understand, uncover and learn about the mysteries around us.  And that requires faith both in our abilities to discover and understand the meaning behind what we've learned.

As for the masculinity of math and science, this is the kind of thinking that only serves to hold women back from pursuing these disciplines.  Science, like God, is gender neutral; it's only our perceptions and how we choose to view or understand the world that adds these characteristics to them (on an aside, science and religion are not polar opposites as both seek to answer different questions - science the how and what while religion serves to answer the why).  In my studies and work, I worked, collaborated and learned from many talented female scientists who I can assure you never felt there gender was threatened or marginalized by scientific language or nonmenclature.

I appreciate how you're trying to illuminate the inherent bias in favour of men in most, but not all, languages (for example, how there are more derogatory words for women than men), but I think these points of yours above don't help in presenting that argument.