Wolf, would you make the same argument about Moshe Rabbeinu being human and infallible as you do about Chazal?
Chazal were molachim, they were not mere mortals and whatever they taught was from a divine source.
While I generally agree with you wolf, I take exception this time with your line regarding our great Rabbis because thinking that their words do not apply to us has led numerous people down a slippery slope.
Now whatever Chazal have said about woman can apply. That does not make women inferior in intellect. Chazal just show that womens’ thinking is inferior in the situations that they spoke about. However that doesn’t mean womens intellect is inferior in all situations. In fact in other situations their intelligence might be superior. Women and men think differently, their thought patterns are different and women learning to be rabbas are not learning like men are learning in serious yeshivas.
That does not mean women have overall lower intelligence. Not at all. Women have a binah yesierah. It is a DIFFERENT KIND OF INTELLIGENCE THEN MEN. It’s as simple as that. Women learn differently and think differently, but we are not less intelligent.
Now were I a man who learns Torah, I would be able to bring numerous sources on the intelligence of women. And I am also certain I would find sources which state that womens’ intelligence is greater in certain situations then men.
I’m repeating what I said before, no gender as a whole is better or smarter than the other, just different, each with their maalos and chasronos.