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They are distortions because a person reading it comes away with the impression that men are everything in Yiddishkeit and women are second place, merely yentas,servants or property etc. It’s not about quoting sources necessarily, it’s about the context they are quoted in.
For example I could list ten examples of women in the Torah and portray them in this way:
1) Hashem told Avraham to listen to everything Sarah says as her nevuah was greater. This was the first Jewish woman.
2) The women were the ones in whose merit we were redeemed from Mitzrayim not the men.
3) Chana is the one we learn how to daven from.
4) the men failed by chet haegel and the women stood strong.
5) the women were the first to donate to the building of the Mishkan.
6) the women all got to go into eretz Yisrael whereas that generation of men died because they chose to believe the 10 miraglims bad report while the women trusted Moshe rabbeinu.
7) Hashem told Moshe to speak to the women first regarding Matan Torah
8) the woman makes the child Jewish
9) the chachamim preferred Chulda over Yirmiyahu because, as a woman, they hoped she would be able to invoke more raisin from Hashem regarding the churban.
10) its in the merit of the women that moshiach will come.
Great. 10 sources. Now you tell me: by reading these sources does that depict the correct roles of men and women in Yiddishkeit? Or its a distortion by lack of context?