Harvard Ethics: An Oxymoron

[Guest]

Witzel says his forces routed us in California and remarks
with glee that his victory came on March 8 which is
International Women's Day.

It seems that this descendant of the virulent misogynist
Martin Lucifer has now reinvented himself as a champion
of women's rights. The sweet victory he says was over those
who were trying to sanitize gender oppression in ancient India.

I'll close with these ennobling thoughts from the Manusmriti:

The gods delight in places where women are revered.

Where women are not revered all rites are fruitless.

Men who wish to prosper should always revere women with
ornaments, clothes, and food at celebrations and festivals.

If the woman is radiant, the whole family is radiant, but if
she is not radiant the whole family is not radiant.

Fathers, brothers, husbands, and brothers-in-law who
wish for great good fortune should revere their women and
adorn them.

To a woman who is another man's wife and not related
by birth one should say 'Lady' and 'Good woman', and
'Sister'.

A man should revere his mother's sister, the wife of his
mother's brother, his mother-in-law, his father's sister
and his guru's wife.

He should treat his father's sister, his mother's sister, and
his own older sister like his mother; but, of course, his
mother is more important than they are.

Homes where women of the family have not been
treated with due reverence are completely destroyed
as if struck down by a curse.