September 15, 2015
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These female monks have their supporters, including this fellow at a local Buddhist college:
“If everything is in the hands of men, it is as if Buddhism was just the way of a father, not mother. But you need both,” he said. “Mothers have some unique feelings that men do not share. They may have more loving kindness.”
(What a sad commentary that this Third World man’s forward-looking stance would likely be condemned as unacceptably retrograde by, say, a rich white Hollywood lesbian. Good thing he doesn”t”I mean, didn”t”run a big tech company or something.)
The passage of time”and with it, the real world’s inevitable and irrevocable descent into nigh-on-unbearable awfulness”has rendered many a delightful movie scene sadly anachronistic. I don”t just mean those latter-day “historical smoking“ ratings warnings, either:
Who doesn”t experience a tiny twinge of bittersweet nostalgia watching early-“90s-vintage Nicholas Cage rage“as only he can””Then what? I”ll be arrested? Put in airport jail??”
A Fish Called Wanda remains a cinematic comedy master class, and Kline more than deserved his wholly improbable Oscar for a performance movie lovers still talk about with awe.
But while Wanda”finally fed up with Otto’s broken-down autodidactism”was right to shout at him that, no, “Aristotle was not Belgian” and “the London Underground is not a political movement,” I can”t quite nod along with her third correction:
“The central message of Buddhism is not ‘Every man for himself.””
