[Buddha-l] An experiment (Gender on Buddha-l)

[Tom Head]

>First off, I want to underline that my views have been 
>misrepresented by a few of the more more chauvinist members here, in 
>that I do NOT promote wholesale either/or dichotomies of male vs 
>female, and I am not a rampaging feminist.

Please forgive me; being a rampaging feminist myself, I make that 
mistake quite often.

>In fact, I personally am somewhat androgynous in my behavioral 
>preferences and views.

As am I.  I count myself a radical feminist rather than a cultural 
feminist, though the latter seems to be more popular these days among 
fellow rampaging feminists.

>What I am calling for in general is not stilted behavior but 
>civility, that's all, just good old civility. Believe it or not, men 
>are perfectly capable of being civil too. Civility is one way to 
>begin being compassionate because it allows everyone into the 
>charmed circle instead of the usual route here of incivility, which 
>creates nastiness and dukkha.

There's an adolescent male "fight club" dynamic that seems to be 
dominant on most academic listservs, but I don't see much of it here. 
But I promise to look for it.


Cheers,

TH