Reproducing or republishing an article, in whole or in part, in any other forum requires permission of the author or the moderator. In my list of the duties of a rabbi, I said that a rabbi should conmfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable to which Brad Elkin expressed surprise that I was quoting the Christian theologian, Langdon Gilkey. Brad however is mistaken. I was quoting noted Jewish commentator Dennis Prager. Dennis did not attribute this quote to anyone, but I think it is pointless.
Truth is truth regardless of the source.
On the contrary, I think Christianity has done some marvelous things with some good basic Jewish ideas. In practice, however, I prefer to keep those changes small and closely reasoned. Our sages were wise and great, but I think that in this passage they failed to transcend the culture of their time and place. Either we need a brilliant reinterpretation of the traditional language, or we need to consider revising this passage. This removes the problem of why one would not want to be a woman, either in the culture of the sages' time and place or in our own.