[Buddha-l] Gender on Buddha-l

[StormyTet at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/9/2005 1:09:50 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
junger at samsara.law.cwru.edu writes:

I tend  to agree with Richard.  There are differing points of view between
the  tall and the short and between those who look up and those who
look down  (as a matter of relative truth) but I fail to see how
there can be  different male and female points of view, unless they
fall within the  tall/short dichotomy.



Hi, 
 
Just recently I was reading an audience reception study on the movie  "Thelma 
and Louise." The men who viewed the movie almost unanimously hated the  film 
and saw it as male-bashing. The women tended to see it as liberating. The  
startling point is that the women were very, very aware of the rape scene and  
the brutality the women faced. The men were more concerned about the idea that  
men were represented like this -- their point being that not all men are  
rapists. They were not concerned as much about the rape as the bad light it  threw 
upon their gender. 
 
It takes sensitivity and truly listening to women to hear their difference  
of opinions. In a world where white men are predominantly invisible in their  
hegemony a man has to truly desire to see from a different position in order to 
 do so. It does not surprise me that you do not see that there is gender  
differences. For you to see such thing, you would have to realize that your way  
of percieving was not the only way.  Why would you be naturally drawn to do  
such a thing?
 
Stormy
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