Deborah Russel, prominent feminist blogger on The Hand Mirror blog, does not think the policy should be enforced in modern society.
"I don't understand why a secular institution, funded by public money in a secular state, is imposing religious and cultural values on people.
"It's fair enough for people to engage in their own cultural practices where those practices don't harm others, but the state shouldn't be imposing those practices on other people."
However, Margaret Mutu, head of Maori Studies at Auckland University, said the policy was common in Maori culture.
Women cannot go into the garden, on to the beach or in the kitchen when they are menstruating.
"It's a very serious violation of tapu for women to do those things while menstruating. Women cannot have anything to do with the preparation of food while they are menstruating."
She said the exhibition rule was quite normal. "It's just the way we are ... It's part of our culture, but it's just one that isn't well known and that Pakeha aren't aware of."
Umm. What was that again?
"I don't understand why a secular institution, funded by public money in a secular state, is imposing religious and cultural values on people."
Therein lies the difficulty. "Public money" is, in part, raised from people with "religious and cultural values". Feminists are quite happy to use that money to further their own causes even when those causes clash with the values of the people forced to pay for them.
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Yes its delicious...and another example of why the existence of "publically owned" land/facilities must always lead to conflict amounst the "owners"of it....being us.As we really have no say in how these things run because the state is the really owner and controller,people will inevertibly clash over them and how they are used.
Not allowed in the kitchen? What do single females who live alone do? Starve?
Love you response Lindsay!! Mauri ora!
Now who is going to cook the F****** eggs!
Of course Russel is talking from both sides of her mouth. But, for once, she was right.
@ Anonymous - how was Russel right? Women haven't been banned. It was a request. I have read Russel's blog and the irony is exquisite: she is anti-Paul Henry not realising that she has more in common with him than difference. The type of multiculturalism being advanced by the chauvinist feminists is little more than a shaded form of mono-culturalism. Russel and her cohorts are the new patriarchy. Good luck with them building bridges with other groups of people, because they sure have burnt some.
the tapu/noa concept doesn't fit on the feminist paradigm, perhaps if the feminist writer understood abit more about Te Ao Maori she would have thought about what she said before she wrote it.
Deborah Knows stoneage,primative bigoted trash when she sees it...as most of us do.
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