Women as characterized

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I am posting this on behalf of Nandarani Evans <nevans;

all comments, etc. should be directed to her. This is a response to

Mahesh Raja's 8 August response to Tim.

 

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Nandarani Evans <nevans

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Women As Characterized

 

I do believe that the times in which we are living are bringing

everyone

to an appreciation of women. It is an organic process, happening

without

anyone's ability to control it. However, Srila Prabhupada said many

more

negative things about women, over and over, than he did about gays or

blacks.

 

What gets me is that male dominated thinking assumes that because a

woman

literally accepts a man, that makes her less than the man. It does

not;

it makes her equal to the man, but in a different role.

 

A deep and profound interconnection reflected from basic realities

from

the highest places as Srila Prabhupada himself experienced.

 

Anything that says that women are not philosophically inclined and

more

materialistic than men, is false. The women I know are quite subtle

and

philosophical, and not particularly materialistic. It is some men

who are

unsubtle and insensitive to a very profound truth: that women and

men are

equal, though different. The men who are closest to me do not fall

into

that category.

 

Who here is justified in saying that accepting is less than being

accepted? And there is nothing wrong and everything right about love

and

acceptance, unconditional. Which is the essence of the female role.

Why

we make it less than aggression is beyond me.

 

Women don't meet the top standard, but one must see them properly.

Men

likewise, and with no "preferred" or "superior" sex treatment. I keep

reading about men going way off the track, recently. For example, a

23

year old housemate has repeated sexual intercourse with a 10 year old

in

her mother's home and videotapes it repeatedly. The mother found the

tapes after the girl finally spoke up. News of men raping very young

female children seems frequent in the news. That's one of the

reasons I

don't buy the papers anymore.

 

The children don't ask for this; the man deliberately forces himself

upon

them: aggression gone wild.

 

Lately I am seeing men helping with baby strollers! And they don't

seem

embarrassed. I've seen it two or three times in the last week.

 

In traditional Cherokee society, men and women are on a par. There

are no

gender pronouns distinguishing between them, and men and women may do

whatever occupational duty appeals: men may tend children if that is

their desire, without loss of face, and women may join an elite corps

of

investigators and vigilantes, if they so desire.

 

Hare Krishna. Note: Hare and Krishna

 

Your servant,

 

Nandarani Evans (Nandarani dd)