I rue the intrusion of psychologizing into the pastoral ministry. Today people are more conversant with the terms of therapy than theology. At the risk of sounding 'psychological', here are three possible causes which might render a woman susceptible to the perversion of extremes. We cannot overreact to the contemporary rush to obtain the perceived benefits of 'victim status' and deny that there are men who abuse women. Many women sadly bear the scars of amputated femininity having been butchered by a tyrannical father, boyfriend or husband.
Some women grow without ever developing a substantive sense of their womanhood.
Not every effaced woman is a victim. There are marriages and homes which are robbed of feminine industry because the woman simply is not industrious. The duties of wife and mother are deemed drudgery. For a sluggard, 'submission' can be redefined as a passive thing and commandeered as an excuse for irresponsible sloth. The home, the children, the marriage all evidence the weeds and broken walls of a sluggard who excuses herself by saying that she is simply being 'submissive'.