Thursday 27 October 2011

Sisterhood.

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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