[FairfieldLife] Re: Is enlightenment sexist?

[jim_flanegin]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> I'd wonder whether the reason so few women are
> in the historical record as having achieved 
> enlightenment is not because so few women actually
> achieved enlightenment, but rather because so few
> who did were noted as having done so in the
> historical record--either because they weren't
> mentioned at all by the men who wrote the record,
> or because these men didn't recognize or didn't
> bother to note or even actively suppressed that
> information.
> 
> Some feminists use the term "herstory" to refer
> to women's history to emphasize that the standard
> records, largely written by men ("HIS-story"),
> have tended to ignore women.
>
Yep- agreed. It is also just the enlightened *teachers* who tend to 
make it into the books and historical records. There are many more 
enlightened men and women who just do their thing and pass on, 
unrecorded.