There is nothing exclusionary about the fact that ancient texts are written primarily by males. Ah, then you're going to lose a certain kind of contemporary diversity. When you include that kind of diversity and mind my argument is that you want to have both of those things in your curriculum. Of course, that's also why it's valuable to read texts from different cultures. The fact that i can read aloudso or confucius or the bagabargita, and find myself so clearly, luminously, a reflected tells me something about me and about what it means to be human"