[Buddha-l] Gender on Buddha-l

[jkirk]

> Of course, one makes distinctions in one's process of thinking.  It is a 
> universal application of a particular distinction that makes it a dogma. 
> You have established a dogma here - the principle that  there is a 'male 
> viewpoint' and a 'female viewpoint'. But Richard and I are simply having 
> none of it.
>
> -- 
> Metta
> Mike Austin
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Correction: I did not propose "a" male viewpoint and "a" female viewpoint,
as if there is only one essential of each, therefore I did not "establish a 
dogma"--
how ridiculous--I simply asserted a tendency on this list. A tendency is not 
a
universal application.
As I already said, and I'm not going to repeat this again so if dunces here 
insist on ignoring it, it's their problem. It's always "more or less" 
whenever any generalization is being made by me. I am not obliged to cite 
statistical data to support the evidence of decades of research.  There are 
instead a variety of such viewpoints influenced by the culture of gender 
distinctions within any given society. That gender is basically a cultural 
construction that operates variably within different societies to produce 
certain values and behaviors is a well-established fact, whether you and 
Richard are"having" it, or not.
Joanna

Joanna