[MD] Taoism

[Ron Kulp]

Ron,

I understand what you are saying, and I agree.

BUT, I ask my patterned-self if this book was written with the gender 
of all the characters reversed, would it still be considered 
wisdom?  I think not.  Not even acceptable science fiction.  I 
understand the universality of the Tao, but it is not enough to have 
yang address yang.  I won't be told not to trouble my silly little 
head with such trivial matters. I am not talking about mere sexual 
discrimination.  It's not as personal as you seem to think. My 
canvases don't at all care if a woman or a man places paint upon 
them.  Gender is a division more INSIDIOUS than subject/object.  And 
I think it was you who suggested that the subtext in LILA was a sexual
one.



Ron:
Yes it was me who suggested how preconceptions about gender was the
focal point of the interaction between Lila and the Capt. I also stated
how I 
Believed he chose this because it is a basic example of the problem at
It's root.
The book you read may well indeed have masculine undertones and
misinterpretation, but the words you posted held no gender
interpretation where I could see.

No where in my post did I say " not to trouble your silly little 
head with such trivial matters."  
Interesting how you state then " I am not talking about mere sexual 
discrimination.  It's not as personal as you seem to think." 

Then immediately follow with " Gender is a division more INSIDIOUS than
subject/object"

Do you not see the contradiction?



Marsha:
"My canvases don't at all care if a woman or a man places paint upon 
them."

All the world is your canvas Marsha, you are the one who paints upon it.