I'm suspicious of Paul being a womyn hater, too, but I think you have to look at the culture of that time. It was against Pharisaical law for men to talk to womyn in public. She had to walk very quietly behind the man, too. Imagine if non-believing or new in the faith men saw a womyn at the podium. The new religion would not have stood a chance. But, why couldn't the Bible eventually have made a revised policy on the treatment of womyn when the narrow minded men got used to them being involved in the congregation? Because Christianity itself is womyn hating and has perpetuated the stone-aged belief that womyn are inferior to men for thousands of years. It's a power thing. There is an imbalance when one is perceived and treated as less than the other. All things in life and nature must balance or they will fall apart, eventually. Violation of homeostasis results in sickness physically and socially.
Not a man hater, a lover of all, Chenoa:)