Reply To: Rav Lichtenstein's Centrist Orthodoxy, by GAW

benign:

Also, the reason he wouldn’t say what you are saying is that I don’t think it makes any sense.

Women always had a yetzer hara, and always were given the tools by Hashem to deal with it, and that never included the mitzva of limud hatorah.

It makes some sense to claim that the yetzer hara is now stronger. But it doesn’t make sense to say that it is now the mens’ yetzer hara. It doesn’t make sense to say that the stronger yetzer hara now needs an entirely different thing to address it, and that coincidentally happens to be the thing that addresses a man’s yetzer hara.

But in any event, as I note above, that isn’t the argument he is making. The argument he is making is that they always needed limud hatorah. And it is mufrach as I note.