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Women and the New Age

Thanks for your beautiful article,of course If woman is given equal opportunity of education, distinction and estimate of inferiority will disappear.

When woman’s point of view receives due consideration and woman’s will is allowed adequate expression in the arrangement of social affairs, we may expect great advancement in matters which have often be grievously neglected under the old regime of male dominance—such matters as health, temperance, peace, and regard for the value of the individual life. Improvements in these respects will have very far-reaching and beneficent effects.

The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful and aggressive qualities both of body and mind. But the balance is already shifting; force is losing its dominance, and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy. Hence the new age will be an age less masculine and more permeated with the feminine ideals, or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced.

Regard,
Mona

Women

What a beautiful article showing the need for equality between men and women. The quote at the end, from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, clearly indicates that the world cannot progress and peace cannot be attained without this vital principle!

Feliz Navidad y Propero Año Nuevo :o)

 I wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy and Prosperous New Year..............

solh

PS:  Yes, jazz is very good music too. :o)

Answer to " Woman"

Dear Woman,
I totally agree with you :)
You are a good lady and I have all the respect for you. Yes, most women in my life smelled like lamb shank LOOL. Somehow I prefer that over many of the perfumes that other women use, but I always loved Nina Ricci, since my first love wore that back in Tehran, but late she switched to lamb shank too...

Anyway, Merry Christmas dear and no hard feelings, OK? I wish you a Happy New Year. I am looking forward to another episode of Christmas in Vienna performances and Walter Cronkite as a host, it's the best of the season.

Happy Holidays to all
Felis Navidad Sasha
Happy Baklava

generalization shmelarizarion

To Senior Salvador Ghalee,
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Well I guess you're a big fan of generalization! Stereotyping or generalization is for people who have a limited mental capacity to see differences. It is easier for their minds to put it in certain molds, and let it be at that.
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I never expressed to you how I felt about any musician, or any genre, yet you assume that I must love Dariush, and hate classical. Why can't someone love both? Why can't someone hate both? Why can't someone love both, and other styles as well? Not everyrthing is gonna fit your mold of thinking. And then you become surprised when you see others with different tastes. You say all women hate classical, all women like Dariush,all women this and that... GENERALIZATION OVERLOAD! Baba, learn to see the DIFFERNCES.
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You mentioned that you've lived a long life. Is that an accurate statement? If that is really true, you must have been exposed to a very "limited & special" group of women, all smelling of lamb shanks. I bet your mom was a good cook too ;)

to sasha:
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PS. Dariush and Ebi have excellent voices, are very capable singers, and I respect them for that. However, for my own listening pleasure, I listen to classical music a good chunk of time, along with many other genres. One of my most favorites are blues and jazz. Classical music is good and that, however, it is no match to jazz in terms of complexity, sophistication and that "coolness" of its sound.

Senior Salvador Ghalee..........Acculturation is what I said...

 One becomes a hybrid, a combination of many cultures in this case. One learns to appreciate the good in other cultures and simply chooses not to add the bad of the cultures. We are of course aware of the bad aspects of a  culture, I am not saying to be blind to it.

Now, I have been listening to classical music and especially operas since I was 10 years old. Yes, I was the odd person in my culture growing up but that did not stop me from listening to it whenever I had the opportunity. My friends had many other interests that we could share. You too can find an Iranian woman with varied interests but that respects your appreciation for classical music. It is a matter of respecting each others interests and not so much of enjoying the same things.

You also have to be careful not to over generalize. I am sure there are both Iranian men and women that like classical music as much as you do. The world is a very big place and I am sure she is out there somewhere. :o) I also did not say that someone telling you to "shove" anything was good. I think there are better ways to express one's dislike of something. It is the battle of the genders when such things are said and it helps no one.

Since you mentioned that saying the following "without having to give a shit about Dariush, Ebi and Shahram!" why bring it up if you know someone dislikes it. I really don't know who it is you speak of so I will have to look it up to understand why they are so hated by you and even then I still might not understand why because we have different perspectives on the matter.  

 solh

To Sasha

You are right about the arguments, however and nonetheless the author also has exaggerated a bit, what "fantastic cultural heritage"? Come on down from the sky.

No culture in the world is "fantastic" as the measurement and tool is most likely subjective. Culture is culture, it has good things in it and bad things.

What is important is if a person through his life has become "cultured" or not. Which means observing other cultures as well as his own to find out if there are most acceptable norms that can be learned from other cultures, such as tolerance, respect, patience, perseverance and other characteristics and traits.

If I say I have never met an Iranian woman that has liked classical music, I am not trying to insult anyone, I am sharing my experience, why should I "shove" it as the Woman asked me? Not that I mind to shove it occasionally.....

Anyway, I do wish to meet an Iranian woman with whom I be able to share my love of classical music without having to give a shit about Dariush, Ebi and Shahram! And once you say such thing to an Iranian, they are ready to cut your throat with bear hands....

Jeez...........the author poured her heart out on the article...

 You are all arguing about classical music when the author poured out her heart about making choices on what to keep or let go of her culture. Time to stop and reflect.......

solh :o)

Answer to " Woman"

You see your tone and anger is a confirmation of what I have said at the very start of this conversation. You sound like someone who thinks Dariush is the biggest gift art has given to the world, and that is why you eat raw onions with your chelokabab and you dye your hair blond but you forget to dye your eye brows and you smell like goats fat or lamb shank.....

Now, do you think someone like that can appreciate classical music?

Stop the fake act! Pass the musto-museer por favor!

to Senior Salvador Ghalee -shove it

that in my entire life I am yet to meet one Iranian woman that can stand western classical music for more than five minutes

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Nothing wrong with liking or disliking any particular genre, but your statement reflects more than a mere disprespectful attitude about women and western classical music.
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I wonder if this negative attitude of yours is towards your mother as well? how about your sister, aunts or grandmothers, or other female members of your family? Perhaps you don't respect them? or could it be that there are no respectable women in your life?.... hmmm

I am for one, allowed to

I am for one, allowed to listen to classical music only by headphone, since my wife can not stand it at all. but let's not make it as a battle of genders. Neither the "intellectual" man who compared classical music as "Rozehkhany" (and probably Luciano Pavarotti as "Ahangaran"!) is representative of own gender, nor you . Moreover, while rozehkhany can fulfill the purposs of rhythm and melody, its main purposs has been as motivating the believers of the religion by its content. The content that may associate many socio-political events in Iran (War, revolution and so on..) that usually were depressing. The contents that may associate sadness so that it can undo or overrun the spiritual or artistic functionality that rozehkhany potentially could have.
It is great that Iranian women can explore and fulfill their real interests in a free societies of West(at the same time exploiting in many sense). But it is not the whole point. While as a man I can not say what is or is not better for women to do , I think still there are some valuable properties in Iranian culture for them that needs courage and will to make it as attainable and usable.It is not to say that there are struggle for rights within the Iranian society for women. Not as a prevalent trend, but yet a women can listen to classical music in public (I am not sure about opera)and even there are some female iranian member of philharmonic orchestra in Iran. The trend that was not much common like may be 10-15 years ago. So finding the relief in west is not the only answer I think. at least it can be only first steps for them to make them know their potentials and then help others with less opportunities to join the party.

Acculturation..........:o)

 You can decide for yourself what  things  you will keep from your culture and what will you take from the US culture. It is your choice. :o)

I too have decided to only take the best from my culture and other cultures to make me who I am today. :o)

 solh

To Gharbzadeh Iranian Woman

say, if you like classical music can you whistle a few for me,let me see how good you are....

Happy Baklavayeh Yazd

Iranian women love opera and Western classical music

Really? I am yet to meet one Iranian man who can stand Western classical music for one second. Great majority of Iranian men are unable to appreciate the Western classical music, and that's an unfortunate fact! :-(
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Happy Yalda everyone!

I honestly can say

that in my entire life I am yet to meet one Iranian woman that can stand western classical music for more than five minutes without yelling "turn that shit down"! I am sure that are some out there but in my long life all I met are women who die for Dariush, Ebi, Shahram and similar popcorn singers.

Someday I like to meet a pretty Iranian woman who truly appreciates the western classic, if you are the one call me at my toll free number....

Thank you and have a wonderful Yalda