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

[jkirk]

Well put Bernie--and unfortunately I still haven't been able to read Conze.
Joanna
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From: "Bernie Simon" <bsimon at toad.net>

> 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.
> 
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