--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@>
> 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.
I should add that in a hypothetical matriarchal
society whose records were written by women, it
would probably appear that there were very few
enlightened *men*.
