[Buddha-l] Re: Gender on Buddha-l

[Mike Austin]

In message <0092f62694ceaca5cc54cc9d7c68cbbc at toad.net>, Bernie Simon 
<bsimon at toad.net> writes
>The difference between the male and female point of view is the 
>difference between the point of view (pov) of the oppressor and the 
>oppressed. I think that somewhere in Edward Conze's collection of 
>essays, Thirty Years of Buddhist Studies, he writes that while the 
>oppressed understands the pov of the oppressor, the reverse is not 
>true. The oppressor can't be bothered to think in other terms, sees 
>their own pov as the way things are and not a pov at all, and the 
>oppressed pov as deviant.

Hehe! Off we go with another generalisation of points of view.  Is there 
a generic oppressor's point of view  as opposed to an oppressed person's 
point of view?  I don't see how this withstands reason any more than the 
supposed difference between generic male and female points of view.

In the example you give,  one might even suggest that a knowledge of the 
oppressed person's point of view by the oppressor could have provided an 
advantage that helped create the situation.

-- 
Metta
Mike Austin