Unless women are liberated, men will never be liberated. I have accepted women for the first time on an equal basis to men. I am in favour of women's liberation because I know that unless women are liberated, men will never be liberated. Their liberation is together, because they are two sides of the same coin. Naturally, many more women have come, because for centuries they were denied, they were insulted, they were never accepted as equal to men. Naturally, more and more women will be coming - and only those men will be here who are ready to accept women as their equal.
If women had been respected in the past, humanity would not have been in such a mess as it is today - because women are half of humanity. Half of humanity has remained undignified, uneducated, deprived of all freedom, all movement.
I am all in favour of women's liberation - but not the way the women's liberation movement is going. It is taking a reactionary attitude, it is not a real revolution. It is trying to imitate man. And, remember, imitation never makes you equal; imitation at the most will make you a carbon copy - but the original is original.
Abridged from Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries, Talk #7, courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com
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