Se alguma coisa me dá prazer nesta vida é sentir que os meus horizontes são alargados, que os meus paradigmas ficam mais flexíveis e eu mais humana e empática.
Por isso quando encontro matérias como esta, fico fascinada. Só me comprova mais uma vez que existem inúmeras formas de estar na vida e todas elas válidas. Só nos resta respeitar. Mais ainda, resta-nos aprender com os outros e, quem sabe, com a nossa mente mais aberta consigamos viver melhor a nossa vida.
A reportagem é grande, então para aguçar o seu apetite deixo aqui um excerto.
“Imagine a society without fathers; without marriage (or divorce); one in which nuclear families don’t exist. Grandmother sits at the head of the table; her sons and daughters live with her, along with the children of those daughters, following the maternal bloodline. Men are little more than studs, sperm donors who inseminate women but have, more often than not, little involvement in their children’s upbringing.
This progressive, feminist world – or anachronistic matriarchy, as skewed as any patriarchal society, depending on your viewpoint – exists in a lush valley in Yunnan, south-west China, in the far eastern foothills of the Himalayas. An ancient tribal community of Tibetan Buddhists called the Mosuo, they live in a surprisingly modern way: women are treated as equal, if not superior, to men; both have as many, or as few, sexual partners as they like, free from judgment; and extended families bring up the children and care for the elderly. But is it as utopian as it seems? And how much longer can it survive?”
Um beijinho.