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Antardwipa typed:

 

> > > Men are the culprits of the feminist movement, not the women, if I

> > > understood Srila Prabhupada correctly.

> >

> > Considering that most of the men mentioned in that article were not even

> > born or were small children when the 2nd wave of feminism was at its

> > height (we are presently suffering through the 3rd wave of feminism) and

> > Srila Prabhupada made those statements I fail to see how they could be

> > the social engineers behind feminism. These are just ordinary guys not

> > social engineers.

>

> What I was referring to was in keeping with Srila Prabhupada's statement -

> he said men were the culprits. You can't quote his opinions about women's

> lib without accepting who he said was the cause.

 

This is your original text:

 

> > Rasaraja Prabhu, your words are well said. The fact is nowardays, people

> > don't even care of committing offenses or what are offences. They are so

> > caught-up in their little world of so-called academia or schorlarship

> > that they dare to cast aspersions on the teachings of the acaryas. I

> > think the hell for those people are yet to be created.

>

> VERY WELL SAID!!! This was what was EXACTLY on my mind.

>

> Your servant,

> Vidvan Gauranga das

 

According to sastra, women and children are considered blameless. Basically

because they are less intelligent, they cannot suss things out properly.

Who, therefore, do we blame for feminism? Srila Prabhupada blamed men for

social engineering a society where they could have sex with various women

and because they were "equal", after tiring of which the men could walk

away.

 

Now men are finding out (see Shymasundara prabhu's article on marrying

foriegn women) that they want more than just casual sex, they don't want to

marry the spoiled women they created. So they marry elsewhere, and again

women are the victims.

Just a thought.

Men are the culprits of the feminist movement, not the women, if I

understood Srila Prabhupada correctly.

ys

Antardwip das

 

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I don't think you understood Srila Prabhupada correctly.

 

Are you saying that Srila Prabhupada is blaming men who were not even born

yet with starting feminism? That doesn't exactly make sense to me. If we

recall the original text you refer to above has to do with average American

men (modern men of today 2004 born in late 60s and 1970s) not wanting to

marry American women and preferring to marry foreign brides. You then

launched into an attack that these men started feminism and exploited women

(without giving one iota of proof) and have now got tired of using the

strumpets they created and now want nice girls. And we are just supposed to

accept that because they are men and all men are bad and it is their nature

to exploit women. That it would be beyond the realm of possibility that

maybe some were decent guys who were simply fed up with the attitude of

American women and who didn't want to run the risk of getting raped in

divorce courts which have been created by feminism.

 

I don't accept this. Why? First of all you have not provided one shred of

evidence to support your case except saying that Srila Prabhupada said so.

Please provide this quote then which proves that men who were not born yet

had started feminism.

 

Second of all because I provided evidence by the men themselves that use

these services that indicated their reasons for choosing foreign brides. No

indication of what you stated was in evidence.

 

Anecdote: I was recently visiting some devotee friends. They told me that

their neighbor was getting married to a Filapina woman he met through a

marriage broker. He had been married twice before and raped in the divorce

courts. My devotee friend told me that a local women asked him why did he

want to marry a Filapina? His answer "If you have to ask you will never know

why?" This man was not out sexually exploiting loose women (that he had

created via his involvement in a plot by all males to create feminism for

that very purpose) and then when it came to marry he went looking for a

good girl in another country. No he and others like him tried to do the

decent thing and marry local girls only to get burnt in the process. Or,

they saw others get burnt so they decided to try a foreign bride instead.

That is what actually is going on, not what you theorized was going on:

 

"that they want more than just casual sex, they don't want to marry the

spoiled women they created. So they marry elsewhere, and again women are the

victims."