Mary Magdalene - Is She a Penitent Sinner?

The way that lots of interpretation from the early church fathers through Christian history likes to view Mary Magdalene. So we're much more comfortable meditating on how gross and sex-adjacent she might have been, he says. One can't help but think that men who relish this recollection of Mary are trying to inform their own world with their own vision of what sexual and gendered relationships ought to be in a post 500 age.