Rebel female Buddhist monks

[Anomalocaris]

Rebel female Buddhist monks are on the rise to challenge the traditional male authorities in Thailand

On a rural road just after daybreak, villagers young and old kneel reverently before a single file of ochre-robed women, filling their bowls with rice, curries, fruits and sweets. In this country, it's a rare sight.

Thailand's top Buddhist authority bars women from becoming monks. They can only become white-cloaked nuns, who are routinely treated as domestic servants.

Many here believe women are inferior beings who had better perform plenty of good deeds to ensure they will be reborn as men in their future lives.

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[Bendy Demon]

Good! Why shouldn't women become monks? Maybe more women ought to educate some of the men that if it wasn't for the "inferior" women then none of them would have existed t become monks themselves.

See..this is the kind of real gender-barriers that needs to be addressed and I am glad to see that the inhabitants of some countries are working to challenge, change and abandon long-held stereotypes and bias.

[Anomalocaris]

Good! Why shouldn't women become monks? Maybe more women ought to educate some of the men that if it wasn't for the "inferior" women then none of them would have existed t become monks themselves.

See..this is the kind of real gender-barriers that needs to be addressed and I am glad to see that the inhabitants of some countries are working to challenge, change and abandon long-held stereotypes and bias.

This. Also, I think that Catholic nuns should do the same...

[Bendy Demon]

This. Also, I think that Catholic nuns should do the same...

Yes! Absolutely.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

This. Also, I think that Catholic nuns should do the same...

Have you ever met a Catholic Nun?

Warhammer 40k has Space Nuns who are fascists and burn people with flame throwers. In order to create such characters they make tamer versions of Catholic Nuns.

[Anomalocaris]

Have you ever met a Catholic Nun?

Warhammer 40k has Space Nuns who are fascists and burn people with flame throwers. In order to create such characters they make tamer versions of Catholic Nuns.

Sisters of Battle?

[Anomalocaris]

I remember seeing a friar with a chainsaw in Warhammer 40k

Edited September 13, 2015 by Anomalocaris