see *some* women as mother?

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I am a little bit surprised of your viewpoint on women. I am not going to

try to dissect what you write point by point, since I consider that

fruitless,

and just creates a heated debate that does not lead anywhere.

 

What puzzles me is that I get the understanding that while persons

should be examined what nature they have, to get their correct "varna"

position, and egagement according to mentality and suitability, that

only is for men. Even if a women has a mentality for a certain varna,

is perfectly suited, and can do the task very good, still she is not

eligable

just because she is a women. Maybe I misunderstood you, but that is

the impression i got. I really can not understand the thinking leading

to such a conclusion.

 

Maybe in previous times, where the llife expectancy was around 40 years,

and each couple was getting 10-15 children, it was a full time job for

the women to do just childbirth, and then she could not do anything more,

but in today's times where the life expectancy is double, and a couple

is getting only one or two children, it is not such a full time duty

anymore.

What should the women do the rest of their lives? Nowadays many women

are eager to take up other duties in society, and they do it very good.

If a duty is done good, it can be understood that the person doing it has

ability and brains for it, so why should such a person be excluded just

because of birth in a particular body? For me it is just dogma to say that

women by definition has less brains, and therefore cannot do certain

things. If the shoe fits -- wear it.

 

In the matter of Arjuna taking up the duty of a brahmana, the point was

that since he was a ksatriya, his nature could not be supressed, and

would come back all the time and distrub him if he would try to act

like a brahmana.

That example can not really be used against women, because if a

women is suited for a duty, that is her nature, and she would be

able to perform that duty as good as any other person with those

qualities.

 

Now someone might say "but she would act like a women". And that

is just the point. For some reason beeing a women is considered

less inferior, and beeing male superior. The male way of doing things

is considered the correct way, and the female way is considered

incorrect. And it is that kind of thinking that has to be eradicated.

If a task can be completed, why should it be more correct if it

is done how a man would do it, compared to how a woman would

do it? That really does not make any sense.

 

ys Prisni