Reply To: Ladies First – Is it respectful or not?

Wolf, it sounds to me like you have a very Torahdik marriage! And I don’t think it’s a contradiction to the Rambam either.

Joseph, The problem with quoting this Rambam without any explanation (and w/o quoting the Halacha beforehand regarding the husband’s obligations to his wife) is that it’s the type of thing that can be very easily misunderstood and give a very wrong impression of the Torah view of marriage.

There are enough people out there who already misunderstand these things. If you are really anti-feminism, you should be careful how you quote and apply things like this, since it feeds feminism.