Unequal playing field

So yesterday was Father's Day, and I can't help but notice a trend at our church -- and probably not just ours.  In Father's Day sermons, men are challenged and called out, told they need to step up to the plate and do better, asked to come to the altar and ask God to make them the husbands and fathers He wants them to be. 

On Mother's Day ... women are told how important they are and how everyone loves them, and their families are challenged to show more appreciation to their mothers and wives.

How is this fair?  Men get challenged; women get coddled.  And I'm speaking as a woman and mother: I don't go to church to be comfortable.  I'd like to be given a higher standard to aim for instead of hearing a Hallmark card sermon and watching them give flowers to the oldest mother, the mother with the youngest baby, the mother who's traveled farthest to be there, the mother with the most family members at church with her, etc.  (Yeah, the men don't get the door prizes, either; not this year, anyway.  Tommy actually got a gift for being the father with the youngest baby the year Faith was born.)

There have got to be at least as many mothers who could stand a little calling out in the congregation as men.  Come on, preachers; we moms can take it.  You don't have to take it easy on us because we're girls.