Men\'s Liberation...Better Late Than Never Re: # 37

in other words, you are too embarrassed to admit that you were corrected for your eggregious stereotype. perhaps dr. sohail can delineate this aspect of male pathology-the inability to admit one is wrong.

Men\'s Liberation...Better Late Than Never Re: # 35

Excuse me-but you made claims in your last post. Kindly review these claims in light of the Catal Huyuk settlements, ukp.

Men\'s Liberation...Better Late Than Never To reiterate:

The "interactor" "Hurricane" has been challenged on his stupid and ill informed notion that female deities had not existed in the Near East and in researching the Catal Huyuk settlements, will be shown for the charlatan he is. Thank you.

Men\'s Liberation...Better Late Than Never Re: # 27

Actually, it might serve your own clearly considerable educational background (*) to learn about the Catal Huyuk settlements. Pray tell google them and report back to us their significance in the Near East, thanks!

Men\'s Liberation...Better Late Than Never Re: # 11

this is as laughable as ranger's grievances against dalit exam candidates who scored higher than him and were accepted into post grad programs.

It is a gross, incredibly base act to imply that violence caused to men by women is equal to the violence caused to men by women. As with any institution, each charge needs to be investigated. But only a total faakir would claim that laws that protect women against dometic violence are illegal and used for illegal purposes.

Men\'s Liberation...Better Late Than Never Re: # 6

really? how do women in Pakistani urban societies "dominate" men? are the nation's laws somehow not applicable in cities?

Men\'s Liberation...Better Late Than Never Dr. Sahib,

Feminist scholars like Dr. Leila Ahmed and Dr. Amina Wadud have pointed out that certain periods of Islamic empire like the Abbasid period codified the marginalization of women. This interpretation was a departure from the First Muslim societies in which men and women were each other's clothes. The Abbasid Empire, absorbing all the most conservative and self serving cultural practices of several Meditterean civillizations preceding it (including Byzantium, Mesopotamia, Greek Hellenism), arguably made women minorities within their own birth religion.

You touched upon this why many men refuse to question this curious interpretation, and that is their refusal to relinquish share holding of the power accorded to them by societal dominant voice. In other words, why would a man refute or dissent with interpretation (as wrongful as that interpretation may be) that codified his own patriarchical position within his marriage, household, community, country?
Patriarchy, like any unequal system, must be maintained through constant psychological as well as institutional vigilance.

Thus, the very action of a man breaking with this psychological (and literal) hegemony is to threaten the hegemony itself. As an example, a male relative was talking to a white colleague at work. During this conversation, the colleague casually referred to an African American colleague as a "n*****". This relative told the colleague that he could not continue the conversation and walked away. The relative in discussing this later was angered that the white colleague asked him to participate in, accept and approve of his racist speech. No doubt, the relative continued, in the future, he would be considered a "n***** lover" by the white colleague and those who agreed with the white colleague.

My observation is to point out how entrenched these pathologies can be and how they are policed by members of the dominating society. Any comments?

Men\'s Liberation...Better Late Than Never Thanks for this article-it's always so good to hear from feminist South Asian men!

Inside you Re: # 2

not necessarily a lesson, just a reminder to consider versions that are radically revised, shook up, read backwards, side wise, etc.

The Emperor is wearing Albanian Clothes Re: # 3

Really? As opposed to the Serbian cross?

Inside you nice! half of these lines need editing out:

Color drifts apart from the painter’s brush
the picture, inside you
The ocean turns itself, within, without
the fish, inside you
The bullet leaves the barrel,
Says the suffering: I am inside you
Birds float to another place
wind inside you
The desert shifting pattern
caravans,inside you
As life arrives in the early hours
Death unfolding within you.

Or something along those lines. Try experimenting and breaking out of this poem's structure, see what happens.

The Emperor is wearing Albanian Clothes These pieces should be more formally written, in language, content and organization. It is very hard to take what is here seriously given the casual and tangential quality of the text's rhetoric.

My Top Ten Novels by Desi Writers Naqs Sahib,

Could you explain the homoerotic subtext in TGOST to which you allude, using examples? Thanks.

Cynicism Amongst Pakistani Youth Interesting idea-thanks for this piece. Are there any addiction education programs in the areas covered in this essay?

It\'s ME on Both Sides! nice!

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and New American Dreams Thanks for this, Ras!

I will say, when all is said in done, Clinton, Edwards and Obama have some great ideas and it IS very exciting to see working class, African American, and women candidates in this race.