Buddhist Society of Western Australia

Co-operation works well when you are equally yoked in similar goals. One reason Divorce is rising isn't that people aren't cooperating, but rather that marriage is a social pressure that way too many people, especially in the East still, feel they HAD to conform to. Now that liberation and Reason have begun to be experienced, many people, *especially* Women, are freeing themselves from domineering, controlling, nagging, abusive, cheating husbands to free themselves from Suffering 😀 To move towards discovering dreams they felt pressured to put asiodd only to marry a man they don't love to have kids they might not have wanted! Divorce, then, can END the Suffering of oppressed Women. To experience the same autonomy that many Men have enjoyed and purposefully and selfishly deprived Women and girls of for THOUSANDS OF YEARS(!). And, sorry, but Women in the West are cheering them in and deliriously happy for their sisters in still horribly patriarchal and parochial systems. Dogma may prefer Women, and Men in their own way, demands the lives of Human Beings that is really about keeping career religious leaders, monarchies, and merchants in the lifestyle they become accustomed to. And, sorry again if the medicine of my comment tastes bitter to you at first, many young Women don't want to become a part religious life because they ask,"Why in the world would I trust the, predominately, Men STILL dominating it? Why would I want to serve a religious order where I will be subpar because of my age, body,sex which I had no control over and frankly, am not interested feeling guilty about? Why would I help along Religion, that has done very little to Free Women, or educate us or treats usá anything but incubators for the state and work mules? That excuses and forgives men for all manner of illicit behaviour but shaming and c[condemning Women for exactly the same?". These are *legitimate* objections and observations, yet Men *still* don't want to listen