anzalone/starbird wrote: >The way to say it without sounding like a chauvanist is to say it like a >feminist. There is no cultural basis for asserting that Sr. Nirmala is >acting out of an Indian cultural perspective. The beauty of culture is its >adaptability. The Indian pantheon of religions include many female deities, >and their is no Hindu sanction against abortion. The cultural imperialism >of Europe and the patriarchy of Roman Catholicism (objected to by most >Catholic women I might add) is what Sr. Nirmala is dutifully regergitating >as per the requirements of subservience in her Catholic church heirarchy. > >The rigidity of the backward patriarachal Euro-Centrated position you find >objectionable in Sr. Nirmala comes from Rome and hundreds of years of >Vatican mysogynist jibberish. It hails from no where else. So what about dowry, widow burning, restrictions on property ownership, and all that stuff? Doug
