I bring up the word “bitch” for a reason. The Japanese word monku means “complaining,” “whining,” or “bitching.” If you take a walk through any West Coast Japantown, you’ll see T-shirts for sale with “Monku, Monku, Monku” down the front, mimicking the 1970s-era slogan “Bitch, Bitch, Bitch” popularized by Alice Cooper.
Gross’s book has me fantasizing about writing my own book someday-I joked with the study class that its title will be Monku, Monku, Monku: Rantings of a Shin Buddhist Feminist. Someday, thousands of women and others who don’t identify with the patriarchy will look back and praise her as a great pioneer, a teacher who spread Buddhism to a wider audience by freeing it from the cultural bias of androcentrism.Īnyway, Dr. Gross had passed away recently there was hardly any fanfare surrounding her death. Last month, my weekly study group began reading Buddhism After Patriarchy, by Rita M.
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