Re: [FairfieldLife] Relating to the TM Raja

[awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---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.
 
 I am no women's libber (if that aged term even still exists) because never 
once have I felt women needed to be liberated since we are all, in reality, the 
absolute sense, free. Women are amazing - powerful, capable, strong and 
resourceful. The very idea that the Movement embraces any of this bullshit, 
archaic notion of the uncleanliness of menstruation, the servitude of women is 
preposterous beyond belief. The day I walk behind a group of men because of 
some idea that women are subservient to them is the day I kill my dogs and eat 
them for fun.