(November 24, 2013 at 6:06 pm)Bipolar Bob Wrote:(November 24, 2013 at 5:59 pm)Captain Colostomy Wrote: The Buddha said wut?
Siddhartha at first claimed that women were incapable of becoming "enlightened", that they were a distraction from "enlightenment" within themselves and were the reason that mankind fails to achieve "enlightenment"
The Buddha was a misogynist.
Hardly, but it's not worth quote bombing here. The fact many ethnic buddhists use cultural bias even today to marginalize women does little to help my position, so I'll drop the objection.