I think if someone genuinely practices the dhamma, misogyny would get eradicated, not become established. All forms of aversion, all forms of ‘comparing’ (conceit) should go and be replaced with metta and compassion towards women and men. If one can get rid of the idea of a self in the khandhas, or see that we are nearly the same matter simply rearranged, these things would fade. However male dominance has crept in, in some places.
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“Brahman, the Blessed One—the one who knows, the one who sees, worthy & rightly self-awakened—has declared the level of one who is venerable and the level of one who is a youngster. Even if one is venerable—80, 90, 100 years old—yet if one partakes of sensuality, lives in the midst of sensuality, burns with sensual fever, is chewed up by sensual thoughts, and is eager in the search for sensuality, then one is reckoned simply as a young fool, not an elder.
“But if one is a youngster, youthful—a black-haired young person endowed with the blessings of youth in the first stage of life—yet does not partake of sensuality, does not live in the midst of sensuality, does not burn with sensual fever, is not chewed up by sensual thoughts, and is not eager in the search for sensuality, then one is reckoned as a wise elder.”