Word: doormats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Radcliffe Girl turned into a member of the human race." A long way had been come since 1884 when an editorial dealing with the same subject suggested that the members of the "Harvard Annex" might consider themselves as "...collegiate guardians of good morals and good order." This "doormat to Heaven" conception of a woman's place in the world was the condescending side of the masculine philosophy embodied in the Chinese proverb that "the three virtues of women are to obey the father, to obey the husband, to obey...
...wedding verses "bunkum and nonsense." At another lecture Krishnamurti said to the males in the audience: "Do you know what your relationship with your wife is? We all know this relationship-sex nagging, bullying, dominating, the superficial responses of marriage . . . If you are dominant and you make her a doormat, you say: I am happily married...
...into the dressing room. Judge Eric Weston (one of the few remaining Britons on India's bench) denied Mrs. Mehta's petition. He dryly observed: "I do not think there is any room for doubt that the teachings [of Krishnamurti] suggesting revolt of the wife from her doormat position must have had their effect upon her mind . . . This led to her refusal to carry on marital relations with her husband, which must have caused considerable resentment. Final rupture was the inevitable result of a situation which was largely of her own creation...