The Baha'i Studies Listserv > Feminists would rather have us see individuals who are male and individuals > who are female rather than men and women.
And there is a difference between being male and men or being female or women? Each individual in the world is > equal. They are the same in potentials and free will, but the use of their > free will they can turn the into individualities who are unique and > therefore different. Categories like male, female, or any other categories > only exist in so far as their are male, female, etc. individuals that keep > those categories in existence. Groups, clubs, societies, alliances, > associations, leagues, families, state, countries, unions, companies, > corporations, etc. only exists via the existence of their constituent > individual members. If you split any mumber of people into several abritrary > group via coin tosses or other random stats, you would wind up with each > individual being the same in that they are all individuals, yet different > via the free will to be unique. Males and females are no different from > other categories. All, I can say Stephen is that Abdu'l-Baha talked a lot about the equality of women and men but he didn't emphasize the individualism. I think He thought more in terms of community. But Sen will probably disagree with me here. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-537582-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai...@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
