In her groundbreaking essay “The Human Situation: A Feminine View,” Valerie Saiving Goldstein argues that the Christian focus on the sinfulness of pride is rooted in the faith’s historic masculine leadership. She says pride may well be a sin for many men who hold power in our patriarchal society, making men’s choice to check their pride in service of others very virtuous indeed. Yet women, not being in this position of power, are more likely to think too little of themselves than too much, suffering from an “underdevelopment or negation of the self”4—something Blue Jones saw in me from a mile
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