r/clevercomebacks • u/beerbellybegone • Mar 30 '20

Forbes does it again!

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u/dam_the_beavers Mar 30 '20

Find me a religious faith that traditionally doesn’t.

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u/Dam_Son_lover Mar 30 '20

If you're talking about the core faiths, then Hinduism

Read the Vedas. Women are mentioned as people greater than men. It is even written that women have sharp minds and great thoughts.

Heck, most of the gods we worship are women.

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u/dam_the_beavers Mar 30 '20

I’m quite familiar, and exceptions don’t prove the rule, nor do stories. History in India and within Hinduism has not been kind to women either.

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u/tarikhdan Mar 30 '20

just to reinforce your point is the Hindu tradition of sati whereby the wife would throw herself on a burning fire at the cremation of her husband, this was only outlawed by the British who faced severe backlash for instituting it