Yes, He certainly was. Any nation that upholds Christ is a nation where women are treated with more equality with men. It is because of Christ's influence on that nation's laws and the people who love Him. I also like to think about how Christ treated the sisters, Martha and Mary. Even in his rebuke to Martha, who was acting childish, Christ was loving. Of Mary He said "Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman [Mary] has done shall also be spoken of in memory of her." (Matt. 26:13)
Yeppers. All we have to do to see proof of that.. is to look at the Arab countries, China, South America, etc.
However, John Dominic Crossan in his Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography has convinced me - at least - that this woman recongnizes Jesus' fate in death before anyone, including his apostles, and thus, must he be so annointed.
Which, again, only reinforces my #126, was it? (Heck, I hope so, for having to so backtrack once more.)
Hence in having spoken of "emotion", was the notion of inspiration ever seperated from the Word?