Quoting Margaret Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Marsha, > > I'm sure I'm opening a big can of worms here - > I'm not reading this book, but I do read a lot of > posts here that you make about yin vs. yang/ > man vs. woman issues and so on. > > The moment a woman demands her rights, she > reduces herself to the level of a beggar. (this is not > me, but Yoko Ono - yet I agree with it.) > > Certainly it is true that over the course of history, > women were not considered the same as men. > And there are still many countries in the world where > women are brutalized by men. I am not saying that > there hasn't ever existed or doesn't consider to exist > problems related to gender issues. > > But it seems to me that continuing to look for problems > in this area is a static pattern. > > I've owned my own business in a male dominated field for > many years. I was in a male dominated rate when I was > in the Coast Guard - working in electronics. I > have rarely, if at all, experienced any issues with men related > to my gender. I'm considered by my colleagues and peers > to be very feminine, yet regarded as competent > and capabable as any and more so than a lot of other > men as I work on computers, hardware, networks and so on. > > I realize that 100 years ago - I would not have had the > same options, but it's not 100 years ago. > > There are many books that I read on Taoism, Buddhism and > so on - they were written thousands of years ago - they > are not going to have the same social perspective we have > right now. It is changing - Pema Chodrun is one female > monk who runs a monastery in Nova Scotia. She also writes, > lectures and is apparently taken seriously by her peers and > colleagues - I bet she didn't get where she is by > worrying so much about being a woman vs. a man. > > I think there are a lot of ideas that are very misunderstood > about gender - even from the past. Men cannot have babies. > No matter what. They can certainly raise them, but they > cannot experience the act of giving birth. I believe > this is one reason why men did other roles - became > monks for example - while women went about the business > of giving birth. Now we have options - we're over populated, > women choose not to have children. Biologically, the pattern > and the agenda is different. > > I don't read books on taoism looking for duality - equal > time given to women - it actually seems at cross purposes > with the MOQ to look for gender issues at all - those > are just biological and social levels that change and > correct themselves all the time.
Well said! Thanks. Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
