I bet if he hadn't said anything about women, he'd still be guilty

[sincere]

maladaptive linked me to this and I just about killed myself laughing. These are literal quotes.

Buddha buddy: "The Buddha himself said that women are equally capable of serving the Sangha, teaching the Dharma and reaching enlightenment."

CRAZY BITCH: "He did, did he? That was very big of him. I don't really need a man to decide whether I am or am not able to reach enlightenment and the fact that he saw fit to pronouce on it is an example of his male privilege."

Actually, I think the fact that he saw fit to pronounce on it is an example of his being BUDDHA. If achieving supreme enlightenment and founding your own religion doesn't give you the right to declare who can and can't get in good with the universe, what's left besides joining the Republican party?

I can't -- it's such radically stereotypically hyperfeminist insanity that I can't quite put to words how wrong it is. It's such insanity it is bizzaro-world prejudice, because it assumes that by virtue of being male someone comes to believe himself to have some sort of innate ability to declare the status of females in his vicinity. If Buddha had been a chick and made the same pronunciation, would that make it okay? That would not be a horrific slight to your gender? Male!Buddha says it and HOW DARE HE of COURSE I can become enlightened just like a MAN to tell me whether I can or can't do something! But if Female!Buddha says it would it not be telling you whether you can or can't do something?

This person, if you follow the link, also insists that Buddhism is patriarchal because a guy came up with its teachings. This displays some sort of fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of patriarchy. Being born with a dick probably does not indoctrinate you immediately and irrevocably to the vast conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen and out of power.

Many societies in which Buddhism was practiced are patriarchal. Judeo-Christian religions are patriarchal, it says males govern the females in the books, read 'em and learn.

Buddhism is not patriarchal. It has a male medium.

pa·tri·ar·chy Pronunciation Key (ptr-ärk)
n. pl. pa·tri·ar·chies In both senses also called patriarchate.

1. A social system in which the father is the head of the family and men have authority over women and children.
2. A family, community, or society based on this system or governed by men.

And now "3. A religion no matter what the beliefs in which a man wrote down the words."