Matajis, law of karma and fundamentalism.

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> But one thing has occurred to me, all this talk o equality, yes we know as

> spirit souls we are all equal, but until we are on that platform lets be

> practical, men and women are different, that's obvious enough, what is al

> this talk of equal rights anyway, who started it anyway, the suffragettes

> in the USA.

>

> Still even though one may be capable of performing a certain task, one

> may, humbly give priority to another person according to certain social

> protocol, even one man to anther, that is just custom, why is a woman

> considered inferior anyway, I say different. Lord Krsna puts woman, sudras

> and vaisyas in the lower category, I don't know the details of that, but I

> seem to remember Srila Prabhupada saying in a purport in the BG, that

> mentally women and sudras are on the same level, and gave a example that

> they lament unnecessarily, so this is not so black and white this whole

> affair, I can see that, but I do think for the sake of some smooth running

> of society, a lady would not be too anxious for any position, even if she

> was capable. I will give an example, here in the UK some years ago some of

> the ladies started to give class, now two out of three of them had some

> personal difficulty, so it just the men, everything works two ways, you do

> even get ambitious women with the wrong motives as well, anyway I wanted

> to say that there were many other ladies who were equally as capable, but

> by there natural shy nature they did not want to do such things.

 

I have really a hard time following what you are trying to say. I think

you want to say that men should be given priority over women, but

I cannot follow your reasoning why it should be like that. Could you

please explain?

 

Now, my first thought is that of trying to measure a round hole

with a square plug. If men are the standard, then of course

women are sub-standard and inferior. But it can also be turned around,

and said that men are far inferior to women, on the things women are

good at. This seems to boil down to a patriarchatic view of society.

There does not seem to be any other argument than the abolute

statement that men are better, and because of that measuring stick,

women are inferior.

Absolute statements cannot be argued with, but is really the

Vedic society like this?

 

Looking at the vedic world, there is no real indication of any

inferiority of women. Men and women both excell in different

qualities. Together, side by side, they build up the society.

 

Yes, for a man it might be considered inferior to be more emotional,

and lament more. But for a women it is not. To think that women

are inferior, just because female behavior in men is inferior,

is a little bit ridiculus. Women are allowed to be female, that

is their nature, and it is nothing wrong with it! Men and women

has to be measured in different ways, with different measuring

sticks.