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Doubt. Women who convert to Christianity are usually pleased by the improvement it brings to romantic relationships, especially marital life. I certainly was. That was actually one of the major drivers for the spread of Christianity: Christ loved women more than other rulers did and that was reflected in the form of marriage He and the Apostles preached.

Also, that women are not considered "only useful as wives", but have a societal rank in different vocations.

Laeserin 9mo ago

That's one of my main beefs with all of this masculinist rhetoric: They always sound like they view women as nothing more than potential breeding mares, and their wives are just their personal mare that they can lock up in their barn, to keep other men from riding her.

That is a complete departure from New Testament teaching and Church tradition, and has nothing to do with the view of marriage defined in, for example, Ephesians 5 in the #Bible, where there is clearly a higher purpose to marriage

https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/publication?d=the-epistle-of-paul-the-apostle-to-the-ephesians.-chapter-5-5-by-cambridge-v-king-james-version

And 1 Corinthians 7, where it is clear that marriage is not the only appropriate vocation for a woman (or man).

https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/publication?d=the-first-epistle-of-paul-the-apostle-to-the-corinthians.-chapter-7-7-by-cambridge-v-king-james-version

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Laeserin 9mo ago

Also, remember all the Manosphere guys all excited about that fertility cult, a while back? Quiverful or whatnot?

Yeah, that was pretty gross, but typical for their mentality.

Laeserin 9mo ago

I remember talking to some of them about that, back in the day, and they were surprised how horrified it made me, but there's nothing in Catholicism that demands you try to knock your wife up, every year, like you're in some sort of reproductive competition.

Being open to life doesn't mean she's constantly pregnant.