Phiksuni and Buddhist Nuns

Recently I've been surfing the web and came across an article about the disputes regarding ordaining women.
The ridiculous part of this was that this movement was seen as part of women's equality.

Buddhism has traditions that are far too old for such a thing to even be an issue. I further noticed that the Buddhist nuns discribed were in fact Phiksuni.

Let me clarify a few things since this is something that really affected my intelligence and understanding.
There are various titles in the hierarchy of Buddhist society.

To begin with, Lord Buddha was against women being ordained for the simple reason that biologically they had various handicaps. 2500 years ago monks had to withstand all kinds of danger. Attacks from wild animals and malicious people for starters. Comforts were few if any. Women faced the additional handicap of menstration and the possibility of being raped. Can an ordained woman walk around bare body or piss anywhere she goes? I don't think so. There was a good reason behind Lord Buddha's hesitation to have women ordained and it had nothing to do with women being able to reach enlightenment, as well as men.
It was a safety consideration pure and simple. So for this to be a question of equality is ridiculous.
Phra Annun, who was Buddha's faithful disciple,was the one who started the "samnak" for Phiksuni.

Samanaen is a monk under 20 years of age and as such remains under 10 precepts until he is ready to take on the 227 precepts of full-fledged monks, i.e. Phiksu.

Phiksuni on the other hand are under 311 precepts, so thus would be catagorised as female monks. They wear the same robes that the monks wear.

The point here is that even if a samanaen has been ordained for only a day and is under his 10 precepts,
Phiksuni with her 311 precepts must bow down to the samanaen. This is the way it's been for thousands of years. Everything has it's place and there are sound reasons for why things are the way they are.

There is another catagory of ordained women called Maechi. These are the true Buddhist nuns and are only under 8 precepts. Depending on what country they're from,  their garb might vary from place to place.
In Thailand Maechi wears all white garb, whereas in Burma the Maechi wear light pink garb with a yellow cloth that goes under the right armpit and over the left shoulder.
For those of you who have seen my profile, that is the typical attire of Thai Maechi.

My next post will be more on karma and consequences.