text: I'd bet my last drachma she does whatever she's told by the nearest male.  I know many consider the possibility of female deacons as a ray of hope, the first opening of the door to consideration of ordination shut firmly in our faces a few years ago.  I see it only as a ploy to shut us up for another five centuries while the real humans continue to lead the Church.  I witnessed and was "victim" to these same tactics during the 70's fight for women's equality...they never change, nor do the motives that inspire them...power, control, a sense of innate superiority and big, fat, giant egos.