Originally posted by: WormikaGrubby
Yeah but the difference is that you chose to go to the monastery ,which is their living space. Their house their rules. We have similar rules at Indian ashrams No short skirts ,no sleeveless clothes, no tight clothes ,no gaudy make up ,don't sit too close to male devotees or male monks , don't touch male monks during pada Pooja etc. At one of the ashrams I go to ,there's a no slang rule. You're supposed to use formal English, so even when I talk to my mother I have to say " Yes" and not " Yeah. All these rules are in place to help them and their devotees have a conducive environment to live their way of life in their living spaces. And we as visitors have an obligation to comply . If we don't want to ,we have the option of staying away.
But here these monks were at a public place, that too at one of the most famous and busiest tourist spots of the world. Yes theres the lift , there are restaurants ,shopping centres and so on on the Eiffel. Any request to limit interactions between female staff and these hundred monks would not only disrupt their work schedules but would also involve replacing ,like you said a female employee with a male one. This goes against the work ethic of any secular place because it's sexist to the woman who is posted as the lift operator . And going by the reports this applied to many female staff members. I don't even get why these monks had to crawl up the Eiffel , there's nothing there for them Or anywhere in Paris for what matter. Escargot , brothels , haute couture, gay bars lol
ETA :- I agree, this is on the management. They should have refused right away instead of putting the female employees through this. Either the management of the middle men who negotiated on the monks' behalf made it much worse
( Greek monasteries are so pretty btw arent they !)
Oh I get your point now. Yes that I agree on. The monks had no right to ask for such considerations and even if they did, then the management should have said no. But we see such things so often - a rich person can easily block off anything for themselves, politicians take precedence over regular people, an actor gets everything, police pay attention to high profile cases more, white people get precedence over people of other races, so on and so forth.
My point was that they should never have tied this to Hindu religion or India as a whole. It was one sect of monks. Yes they may not have had any right to ask for such an exception, but they did and they did it with utmost respect. Now whether they were right or wrong is a discussion for another day, but I definitely do not like how this issue was broadened to cover a full religion.
So pretty! When we were told they were on tops of mountains, we were expecting something more rudimentary, not such beauties! There were a lot of stairs too. My mom only did one and then sat in the tour van for the rest. But the rest of us went to them all and loved each one.
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