Why are so many Geula-bloggers women?

Why are so many geula-bloggers women?

One might have thought to say that the opposite would be true - more men have been exposed to the statements of Haza"l that talk about the Geula. True, more women have been exposed to the Nevi'im that talk about it, but do most women learn those Pesukim from Navi in schools? I don't know, but I tend to doubt it.

This is not to say that there are no male geula-bloggers.  There are many of us too, including yours-truly.  However, it seems to me that the majority of posts of a geula-nature are authored by women.  Why is this?

I think I have an answer both from a secular perspective and a spiritual one.

From a secular perspective, there is something called a "normalcy bias", which is, to quote wikipedia:

an extreme mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects.

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The normalcy bias also causes people to drastically underestimate the effects of the disaster. Therefore, they think that everything will be all right, while information from the radio, television, or neighbors gives them reason to believe there is a risk. This creates a cognitive dissonance that they then must work to eliminate. Some manage to eliminate it by refusing to believe new warnings coming in and refusing to evacuate (maintaining the normalcy bias), while others eliminate the dissonance by escaping the danger.

Now, one website I found talks about gender differences in disaster evacuation:

As noted earlier, evacuation behavior has long been recognized as the reflection of social-level factors and collective deliberation. Decades ago, Drabek (1983) established that households constitute the basic deliberative units for evacuation decision making in community-wide disasters and that the decisions that are ultimately made tend to be consistent with pre-disaster household authority patterns. For example, gender-related concerns often enter into evacuation decision making. Women tend to be more risk-averse and more inclined to want to follow evacuation orders, while males are less inclined to do so (for an extensive discussion of gender differences in vulnerability, risk perception, and responses to disasters, see Fothergill, 1998).

In other words, women seem to have less of a normalcy bias than men do. They see the world changing around them better than men do, and therefore, respond to those changes in a more prudent fashion. (If you'll notice, with some exceptions, the majority of geula-related posts from female geula-bloggers has to do with how and why the world is changing. Male geula-bloggers seem to focus more on how to interpret texts in our changing world. While us guys at times get caught up in these intricacies, the women are simply saying, "מה תצעק אלי דבר אל בני ישראל ויסעו".)

On the spiritual side, one need look no further than this week's Perasha, which says:

וַתִּקַּח מִרְיָם הַנְּבִיאָה אֲחוֹת אַהֲרֹן, אֶת-הַתֹּף--בְּיָדָהּ; וַתֵּצֶאןָ כָל-הַנָּשִׁים אַחֲרֶיהָ, בְּתֻפִּים וּבִמְחֹלֹת

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

Rashi on this verse says:

מובטחות היו צדקניות שבדור שהקדוש ברוך הוא עושה להם נסים והוציאו תופים ממצרים

The righteous women of the generation were sure that HKB"H would perform miracles for them, so they brought timbrels from Egypt.

And, as I saw on Kikar Hashabbat, the men just saw Keriat Yam Suf as freedom from Egypt.  The women saw Keriat Yam Suf as a process of nation-building - who were soon going to be accepting the Torah on Mt. Sinai.  They were able to delve deeper into the meaning of Geula, which is why they brought the musical instruments as singing was not enough to show their love of Hashem.

The same applies in our generation.  Women have the simple Emuna in the Geula more than men, plus they have the Bina Yeteira to know what Geula really means for us.  This could be why there are more Geula-related posts by women.  They know that it's happening and they know why it's supposed to happen more than men do.

I saw a headline today, which may be more of a Nevuah than its author intended:

Clinton: Women can be force for Mideast peace

As Haza"l say:

בזכות נשים צדקניות נגאלו אבותינו ממצרים

In the merit of righteous women, our forefathers were redeemed from Egypt.

 

And the same applies to every generation as well - the Geula comes from the women.  May we be redeemed in the merit of the female geula-bloggers and other female geula-yearners.