---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote : ---In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : rajas as rajas are male.
My recollection is that Maharishi's funeral was officially an all-male event,
so it's not surprising that there were no obvious females in attendance,
whether in the company of rajas, or standing by themselves.
Ohhh, I wonder why that was? I was wondering why I didn't see any women. Maybe
one or two snuck in with a beard or hid their womanly forms underneath the
Papal robes. I wonder if anyone did any serious checking up on this
possibility. Do you think women were not considered worthy of mourning the
Maharishi? Were they too busy preparing the food for the wake? Were they afraid
of some hanky panky during the funeral proceedings? Are women considered equal
in the eyes of the Movement? Did MMY request a male-only funeral? Gosh, so many
questions and so few answers.
Actually there is only one answer. The TMO is fundamentally sexist. There are
no women in positions of power, Marshy thought that you had a different role to
play in the world, one of nurture and support. Basically, get in the kitchen
and don't forget to wear your prettiest frock when serving dinner.
If you want another reason to loath the TMO watch a video where the "rajas"
all enter a room, and love the giant step back to the stone age when the wives
file in afterwards and dutifully sit behind them. unless they are on their
period, in which case they are to stay in their rooms and not poison everyone
else with their uncleanliness.
They also tried to get women too wear "modest" clothes like headcoverings at
meetings, I see where Buck gets his dislike of us unbelievers, it reminds him
that he's a fully paid up member of the bliss-bunny Taliban.
