text: So...if you snooze you lose? ;-}
  Perhaps you noticed the propensity we men (well, at least this man) have to blame women for our failings? ;-}
  
  I think I am more surprised by BlueHeron's assertion that the female diaconate has remained alive, although vestigial, in Orthodoxy. 
  
  BTW, I am assuming that your restored female diaconate makes no distinction between men and women in terms of liturgical functions? or any other allowed duties? The evidence from history appears to be of a pretty clear demarcation between what male an female deacons did. I believe it is precisely on this bug-a-boo that some Catholic scholars have used to argue against the equality of male and female deacons.