Subject: belligerence

From: "Flora Durham" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:22:24 +0800

We do not put our superfluous women into the Zenana. But for this fact, society might well go topieces from sheer ossification and priggishness. They would also not end their lives asconvicts. He willpersecute others for his principles, and this is what makes him such anuisance. This is reflected in a series of nineteenarticles by M. Somebody has said that the spirit of revolution broodsover the female sex.
He will die for his principles; no harm in that.
And if they have money oftheir own, one wonders who was fool enough to give it them.
Even if not, they can now do something stillbetter than that.
During my six years in India I must have visited manyhundreds of temples.
Up to the present they have not had much chance ofdisplaying this quality as public functionaries. So much for the enslaving of women by Hindus.
Followers ofIslam cannot understand our need of similar places.
We putthem into brothels for the use of anybody who cares to go there.
So it appears, and I can onlycongratulate him on not living at Ahmedabad. Il faudrait eduquer le personel de surveillance.
Far from it, though their equipment mightnot always be adequate for modern needs.
They would also not end their lives asconvicts.
He relishes beingordered about by wife or mistress; you can hear him boasting of hisobedience. Now there are more women in England than men.
These women should expedite matters and make the countrymore inhabitable. I think I should prefer the Indian temple engagement.
Was he any the worse for these and other excesses?
We do not put our superfluous women into the Zenana.
Whendid our interest in such things begin?
A man who calls women congenitally unprincipled may look out forsqualls. The mischief, however, is olderthan that. She sets about discovering faults in them; the man dare notdisagree; he discovers them too.