Helen was telling me today about a relationship she formed
with another woman on her last major Buddhist retreat. I found it quite moving.
It was evidently deep, gentle, mutually supportive and non-sexual. It’s how I
envisage the concept of sisterhood, and I envy it.
I don’t think men – at least, heterosexual men – are capable
of that sort of relationship, either with women or other men. Their
relationships with women are always likely to carry at least a hint of sexual
tension, and those with other men at least a hint of competitive tension. I don’t
include familial relationships in this, and maybe it’s different for gay men, I
wouldn’t know.
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