Men particularly are very hurt when they see that the woman is very talented.
This has been one of the greatest calamities in human history: because women have never been appreciated for their talents, they have by and by retarded their talents.
Because a retarded woman was appreciated more, a foolish woman was appreciated more: she just had to have a beautiful, proportionate body and no mind, nothing more.
She should be a cow -- with no intelligence, with no inter-penetrating awareness. That was expected, otherwise the man would feel embarrassed, hurt.
This male ego does not allow a woman to have any say... and she has a few qualities which the man does not have and cannot have in that proportion.
All that is intuitive is more available to women than to men; all that is intellectual is more available to men than to women. Man appreciates intellect, naturally he has intellect so he appreciates it, and he condemns intuition: he calls it blind faith, nonsense, stupidity, superstition. He condemns it because he has not got it.
In the middle ages the women who were called witches and were burned were really very perceptive women.
The male could not tolerate it, the priest could not tolerate. The whole church has remained male-dominated, the whole Christian community is male. Not a single woman is involved in the trinity; the whole hierarchy is male.
It was not really against witchcraft, it was against woman. One day or other when history is written rightly, it will be shown that the movement was not against witchcraft. Witchcraft has nothing to do with it; it was man against woman. It was intelligence against intuition; it was reason against something which is irrational but very powerful.
If woman showed any kind of talent she was thought to be a witch. If the man showed the same kind of talent he became a saint. He was worshipped as a miracle-man and the woman would become a witch. She was in the hands of the devil and the man was a specially sanctioned person from god himself... and it was the same quality!
In today’s world uninhibited expression of their talents will liberate women from the ego clutches of Man, nothing else.
OSHO
Far Beyond the Stars
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