I have never understood why someone as smart as me can't put up with the bullshit that graduating from school involves. I hope my prof. doesn't read Suicide Girls, but here goes, venting.
I was in my Asian Art class, and we were having a discussion about Buddhism. I made mention of the story where Buddha is still a prince in the palace, and he wakes up with all these sleeping concubines, and they are drooling and snoring. And at that moment he is repulsed by them.
After I said it, my prof. said "That's pretty anti-feminist to say he was *repulsed* by them. Why don't we say he wasn't tempted by them?"
Well, guess what bitch. Buddha was NOT A FEMINIST. Back then, in Buddha's time, THAT CONCEPT DIDN'T EVEN EXIST. HE DIDN'T LIKE WOMEN. He didn't even want to start a monastic order for them (although he begrudgingly did it later). I'm sitting there thinking 1) School is so much unbelievable bullshit that I will never escape and 2) Do you want me to look up the scripture and bring it in? The one that uses the word *repulsed*? Because I can do that.
I HATE COLLEGE.
Curi.
I was in my Asian Art class, and we were having a discussion about Buddhism. I made mention of the story where Buddha is still a prince in the palace, and he wakes up with all these sleeping concubines, and they are drooling and snoring. And at that moment he is repulsed by them.
After I said it, my prof. said "That's pretty anti-feminist to say he was *repulsed* by them. Why don't we say he wasn't tempted by them?"
Well, guess what bitch. Buddha was NOT A FEMINIST. Back then, in Buddha's time, THAT CONCEPT DIDN'T EVEN EXIST. HE DIDN'T LIKE WOMEN. He didn't even want to start a monastic order for them (although he begrudgingly did it later). I'm sitting there thinking 1) School is so much unbelievable bullshit that I will never escape and 2) Do you want me to look up the scripture and bring it in? The one that uses the word *repulsed*? Because I can do that.
I HATE COLLEGE.
Curi.
Seriously, someone who doesn't understand the differences between then and now and, you know, Buddha wasn't American, either, so cultural differences too...
Oh yeah, and tempted and repulsed...complete opposites, last I checked...
stupid, stupid teacher..