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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mldarshana" data-source="post: 18727470" data-attributes="member: 25657">Interestingly, even the counter groups use women as a means of making  their point.  If you remember, when the group Buddhists Questioning BBS  held a candlelight vigil, subsequently, there were lots of images posted  online of women who had attended the vigil, accusing them of being  ‘nightclub Buddhists’.  The images that were posted focussed on female  body parts or their attire and there was a lot of discussion if these  women fitted the ‘image’ of Buddhist piety.  Then, some other groups who  supported the BQBBS, in turn, posted images of Dilantha Withanage’s  daughter – dancing in a nightclub – accusing Withanage of hypocrisy.   Even recently, I have seen, anti-BBS groups had posted pictures of  Withanage’s daughter.  So women’s bodies have become the terrain upon  which some of these battles are fought.  Of course, this is nothing new –  but once again, I don’t think we can ignore the fact that even in the  mainstream – women, their morality, their bodies have become subject to  far more surveillance than before.Quoted from GroundViews</blockquote>

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