GAW, I understand your point, but that is not how this issue was originally portrayed. The girls were learning Nach in Seminary, asked their teacher a question that he or she could not answer, so the qestion was posed to R’ Shach. His casual non-responsive response is already known. If a bochur asking a legitimate (not chutzpahdik) shailah that his own Rebbie could not answer, were to be answered in a way to make him feel atupid and insignificant, I would consider that to be as bad. If this is a common practice among rabbonim in general, then it is no wonder we have a crisis of kids going OTD. If they cannot rely on their rov,and especially a Gadol Hador, and person to whom they look up, to treat them as human beings with kovod habrios, then why on earth would they want to bother asking questions at all? And then how are they supposed to learn. Girls are only good for more than just baking cookies. And this comes from the lady who loves to cook and bake.
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