How come there are no men there?

This post has been seasoning for awhile. RantWoman's ordinary saintliness deficit is even worse because it's a squintillion degrees outside. Hold RantWoman--and those around her--in the Light, in front of a fan!
RantWoman thanks Irrepressible Nephew for the concept of a squintillion, defined for purposes of this post as a temperature guaranteed to make Seattleites start melting even if it is considerably hotter elsewhere. At least RantWoman is ALMOST saintly enough to pass up an opportunity to digress about squintillion algebra, whether a squintillion is countably or uncountably infinite and thoughts of additive or multiplicative identity. RantWoman is only that saintly in connection with opportunity instead to rant about...sexism and interrogatories recently from someone in her Meeting about single gender events:


How come there are no men there?
The original reading group that began the Pacific NW Quaker Women's Theology Conferences formed when a bunch of women decided that if the men were not willing to talk across Friends traditions, they would do it as women.
A weighty Friend who desparately needs but has not yet matched up with a suitable Nom De Blog reminded RantWoman of this history.. Seriously Weighty Friend in Need is really not the sort of person RantWoman expects to be so ON about women-only events. But in practically the same sentence, Seriously Weighty Friend was also very eloquent about threads of deep gender-specific sharing in her home group.

But how come there are no men there?
Women keep testing and having no leading to invite them.
But how come there are no men there?
Apparently because you, Friend, need practice staying on RantWoman's list of men smart enough to know there are just things they should not argue with their wives about.
But how come there are no men there?
Look, RantWoman knows you cook and clean and probably are above average for your gender about many qualities, but apparently you still need practice coping. So cope.


But how come there are no men there?
Because there are the following opportunities... for mixed gender and men only events and the following further examples of men-only ... And if God is especially generous, some of the same women organize both the women's conference and mixed-gender events and maybe God willing sometimes content can overlap.


But how come there are no men there?
Look RantWoman went to college with someone who did not bat an eye about simultaneously defending women-only events at the Women's Center and suing the university of all-male eating clubs so why do ymouexpect consistency from RantWoman?.



But how come there are no men there?
Because RantWoman needs you to reflect on the fact that silent and LISTEN contain the same letters!


But how come there are no men there?
Because, bless your heart...!