--- 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*.