The 'crude body' is misogyny writ large. This is a religious image, suggesting that material reality is 'crude' and that we must be fully in the spirit to achieve our 'best' lives and be closer to the godhead, and to do this the crude body must be mortified, by starvation, by abuse, by erasure. This is what makes trans ideology both so wicked and so creepy. That women much more inhabit their bodies than men, because of the physical realities of menstruation, pregnancy and the making of a child, childbirth, lactation and menopause (and their marks left on women's bodies in stretch marks, incontinence, weak perineum etc) made them much more 'of earth' than men, who have none of these links to the crude body, and so women are both less spiritual and less worthy. The argument of patriarchal religions the world over - that women are second class (at best) because they cannot achieve spiritual essence because their bodies tie them to messy reality. This is all behind the idea that a surrogate mother has nothing to do with the child she bears, it is not 'hers' - because that her flesh made it is nothing to do with the reality of the essence of that baby. Sorry, early morning rant. Came here to look for the link to book The Women Won't Weesht.