Attacking women in visible or leadership roles in any field sends a clear “get back in your place” message. There’s everything from internalized misogyny to garden variety projection to petty jealousy happening all at once. Women who go against the grain and don’t act the way others want them to act, or who don’t make others feel the way they want to feel or tell them what they want to hear are especially targeted. That’s multiplied if the woman is in the spiritual field. To paraphrase Osho, there’s never been a place for women in religion. When women try to […]

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