The Secret Lives of Wives + This Is Not A Book Review

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> 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.

 

I've also found it a slightly hypocritical stance to take, to be so

adamantly outspoken against "feminists", who, after all, are only behaving

that way because the men in society have allowed them to, so it seems like a

really pointless argument...

 

> 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.

 

Yeah, the kind you "can't take home to mother." You slept with her, you used

her, but you wouldn't marry her, and if she creates a scene, you can turn

around and say, "Hey you wanted to be equal, honey!" Nice scenario for the

men, but I guess that's the fault of women...seems they can't do *anything*

right....

 

> Just a thought.

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

> understood Srila Prabhupada correctly.

 

Yes, you did. Srila Prabhupada says as much in BG Ch 1, when he says that

basically, while it might be women who "spoil society" with their

uncontrolled behavior, it's the leaders of society who create that

environment and promote loose morals.

 

What we're seeing in this situation is the result of a woman who has for so

long been so conditioned to *not* listen to men that she just says what she

wants. Her third marriage has broken up. I really don't want to sound

condescending, which this might do since it's well known I actually don't

have much 'liking' for this person, but I do actually feel incredibly sorry

for her, because she is, after all, a victim of the society that she was

brought up in. It's ok to say, "yeah, sure, but she should listen..." but

that's not so easy when you've been raised as an independent person. It's no

excuse for insulting Srila Prabhupada though---it wasn't his fault her

upbringing was so low class...he came here to save us from our low class

upbringing, not to be insulted for pointing out how dull we are

 

Your servant

Braja Sevaki dd