tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post2969640125467222045..comments2024-01-26T03:40:32.465-05:00Comments on Breath of the Beast: Two First Encounters- The Hatred of WomenYaacov Ben Moshehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16711165551258127500noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-20566634619056868142007-07-10T15:31:00.000-05:002007-07-10T15:31:00.000-05:00Brilliant and tremendously insightful as always. ...Brilliant and tremendously insightful as always. I'm glad I found your blog (via Keith Burgess-Jackson's, if I recall correctly).<BR/><BR/>DBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-29947651609014358402007-07-09T00:10:00.000-05:002007-07-09T00:10:00.000-05:00AoW,Thanks for the link http://ibloga.blogspot.com...AoW,<BR/>Thanks for the link http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2006/05/neighbor-or-terrorist.html to your story. Nice work. I urge everyone to go there and read it! The more stories we can tell like yours the better chance we have of alerting a wider sphere of fence sitters and politically correct, multi-culti undecideds to the on-rushing calamity.Yaacov Ben Moshehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16711165551258127500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-78508656510951415202007-07-08T14:45:00.000-05:002007-07-08T14:45:00.000-05:00HERE is one of my encounters. Use it if you like....<A HREF="http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2006/05/neighbor-or-terrorist.html" REL="nofollow">HERE</A> is one of my encounters. Use it if you like.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-39191779839102630212007-07-05T21:20:00.000-05:002007-07-05T21:20:00.000-05:00Thank you both-Jim,I'm very glad you liked this po...Thank you both-<BR/>Jim,<BR/>I'm very glad you liked this post. I never would have gotten to that clarity had it not been for your precise and honest story. Your willingness to consider carefully and share your experience is a critical resource- <BR/><BR/>Michael,<BR/>Thanks for another illustration of the honor/shame hypocrisy in action. It victimizes the weak and only feels shame when it is called to task for its misdeeds. We need to shame it every chance we get and never give in to the intimidation we earn in return. Acts of courage and fortitude are never small, if they insist on humiliation we should oblige them in the greatest quantities we can manage. Let them fell every jot and tittle (no pun intended) of their humiliation- they deserve it!<BR/><BR/>YBMYaacov Ben Moshehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16711165551258127500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-89362547990615948322007-07-05T21:08:00.000-05:002007-07-05T21:08:00.000-05:00Dear YBM,What a great post. The linking of the two...Dear YBM,<BR/>What a great post. The linking of the two stories is very effective. Your analysis of both our reactions seem spot on to me. It is so true that we in the West are ready to see both sides and question our own perceptions. <BR/> <BR/>I admire your ability to be clear and effective in your writing. I believe you are doing a great service by shining the light of day on the BEAST.<BR/> <BR/>Thanks again,<BR/> <BR/>Jim G.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-12199077391920804752007-07-05T13:20:00.000-05:002007-07-05T13:20:00.000-05:00YBM:I had a similar "seeing beneath the surface" v...YBM:<BR/>I had a similar "seeing beneath the surface" view of the Beast back in 1978 or early 1979. I was attending a college in Southwestern Colorado, and attended a party thrown by a female friend. She rented a trailer and subleased a room to a young lady. This young lady was "dating" an Iranian fellow, who was on a student visa. I met him and his fellow Iranians. We discussed the Shah and the student protests. They caimed to be under threat of death if they returned to Iran at that time. I had been disposed by the media to think ill of the Shah, and well of these fellows, but there was a undertone in their manner and eyes that made me reconsider. It was a brief encounter. Later, I learned from my friend that the Iranians passed the "girlfriend" around, and also had beaten her on a couple of occaisions, using her as their group whore. My friend worked, successfully, to get the girl extricated from the situation. I wonder at what peril...<BR/><BR/>The Iranians left to return to Iran after the fall of the Shah. Good riddance.<BR/><BR/>Michael TalcottAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com