The Rise and Fall of the Heretics

The gospel thomas is a developmental text it wasn't something written in a short period of time. You begin to see the nausics have this high view almost a worshipful view of the female sex and they begin to romanticize some of the females who traveled with jesus particularly mary magdalene. So you begin to see this push around the time of iran ais and tertullian where women are doing the heroic acts including the clergy. It's not that again he is anti women because you find another parts of his writings at how instrumental they were  in their role as clergy.