see *some* women as mother?

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> On 12 Feb 1999, Hare Krsna dasi wrote:

>

> Frankly, I do consider women inferior to men in SOME things. One that you

> mentioned is bodily strength and there are others. But I really do not

> look at women overall as inferior living beings. Their bodies are clearly

> different (Thank God!) and they are clearly superior to men in many

> things. I'll never be able to have a baby (in this life anyway)and give

> the incredible nurturing that women have naturally. I think those

> abilities are incredible. Also, while I can sew and cook and clean, (and

> some people think I do a very good job at all of them!) it just doesn't

> seem to have that special quality that a women has in doing those same

> things.

 

Many women cannot saw, cook and clean. Some can not have children,

and yet others are not nurturing towards infants.

 

> Another is beauty. This is one area where some women have an incredible

> superiority over men, no matter how strong they may be.

 

Too bad only a few women are beautiful, most are quite "common" looking,

and a majority looses whatever beauty they had as young, when they become

older.

 

 

I agree with Hare Krsna dasi, that the problem is that how women are seen

as inferior to men. That men take that as they are superior by definition,

and that it

increases bodily identification for both groups. This "superiority" is today

taken

to absurd levels, with many very able women endlessly have to fight for

their rightful position and function in socity. It appears that you are

man or women first, and a person just second.

 

Remember that in Varnasrama you get position, and respect, in society

according to your qualitites and learning, not according to birth. I would

say that applies to women also.

 

> Yes, but certain bodily functions of my male body just don't work when I

> try to look at a woman as a physical partner and then call her Mother! :-)

> It doesn't mean I don't respect her.

 

Isn't that just the point? :-)

 

ys Prisni