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[Monkey Mind]

My guess: In most places in the world (so as reflected in the World Village), women do not have the basic freedoms to live life on their own terms.

[Laughs-Love-Peace-Life]

Plus I read for some reason that gays are more common than lesbians. I posted World A Village on the Arts and Writings section in NewBuddhist, I wonder what people will think... I hope I bring smiles  
Love & Peace
Joe

[Tsomo]

Plus I read for some reason that gays are more common than lesbians. I posted World A Village on the Arts and Writings section in NewBuddhist, I wonder what people will think... I hope I bring smiles  
Love & Peace
Joe

Hi Joe, good idea to have posted it on NewBuddhist.
The vision of the world being a village with 100 world-wide-villagers in it is amazing.
I was, and people are amazed when they discover that they do not belong to the 80 villagers who are homeless.
They realize that they are one of the only eight villagers out of the hundred who can live in a good country filled with
mainly peaceful people, can live with or without their own good family,
have good food in a good house, can have good friends born wherever, good schools, enjoy other good facilities,
have or not have a religion, and have some change in your pocket.
This realization will surely make some more people smile a quietly grateful smile.
I also wondered where are the lesbian women in the village.
Even if they are much smaller in number in comparison with gay men, it is a mystery to me why there is no lesbian villager at all.
I am convinced that you have lovely parents Joe, and a lucky young man you are!
Keep up the good work!
Greetings from across the Irish Sea!  


  
  

[Monkey Mind]

for some reason that gays are more common than lesbians

Complicated issue, with many variables, but I will simplify by focusing on women's rights as they exist (or don't exist) in the global society. In most places in world, women do not have ownership over their sexuality. Whether a women felt romantic or sexual attraction to other women is irrelevant. Women are viewed as property, first to their fathers or older brothers, and then to their husbands. Women are required to be chaste before marriage, and marriages are arranged, and then are required to be faithful to their husbands. Unmarried women live as servants to their families (fathers and brothers). There is zero opportunity to identify as a lesbian or live in a lesbian relationship. To defy this social order, in many places in the world, is punishable by death. Even though many of these places also punish gay men with death, gay men have many advantages in being male, included inheritance of family wealth, ability to move with immunity, etc. Ironically, in many of these same cultures, there are many avenues for closeted homosexual men to have secret or discrete sexual liasons. These opportunities simply do not exist for women. Sorry to be a downer.

[Laughs-Love-Peace-Life]

It sickens me how people can 'own' somebody . In England it seems that when you see married couples woman are in charge 
Oh and I told my maths teacher, she said it made her feel better being richer than 92% of the population... It didn't seem the right kind of 'better' though...

Love & Peace
Joe