Peter: “Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em.”
Leon: “The second part is completely true, the first is conditional.”
Peter: “Whataya mean conditional?”
Leon: “Well, it’s conditioned on your attitude toward them.”
Peter: “Bullshit… Doesn’t matter what I do, they’re still impossible to live with.”
Leon: “Yet, you do live with them.”
Peter: “What’s your point?”
Leon: “Point? Kinda obvious, eh?”
Peter: “Is this one of your psychological tricks?”
Leon: “No, just the truth—men are born from women, men live with women, men oppress women, and… women continue to bear it all, with a lot more strength then the men have.”
Peter: “More strength?
Leon: “Obviously.”
Peter: “Might be obvious to you but the whole subject confuses the hell out of me…”
Leon: “So, you admit you misunderstand them. Do you realize you also underestimate them?”
Peter: “Misunderstand, maybe; frustrated, for sure; underestimate? I don’t see where you’re headed with all this, I just want a solution.”
Leon: “Solution, Peter? First, you have to practice three powerful virtues: humility—to soften your willfulness; honesty—to inform your conscience; then, Love—to give them a reason to reveal themselves to you.”
Peter: “Dude, you’re outta your mind…”
Yep, Leon was out of his mind and into his heart . . .
Here are some recent sources of information about how men are treating women:
From Time World: The Best Way to Curb Forced Marriages
From the Washington Post: For Kurdish Girls, a Painful Ancient Ritual
From the Washington Post: A Private Feud Turns Into a National Issue
From Rising Voices: Nari Jibon: End Violence Against Women
From the Guardian, UK: Saudi girl, eight, married off to 58-year-old is denied divorce
From OneWorld.Net: Giving Birth in a Congolese Refugee Tent
From The Bahá’í International Community: Beyond Legal Reforms:Culture and Capacity in the Eradication of Violence Against Women and Girls
From Inter Press Service: Q&A: Failure to Translate Women’s Legal Rights into Action
Spiritual Quote :
“…among the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh is the equality of women and men. The world of humanity has two wings—one is women and the other men. Not until both wings are equally developed can the bird fly. Should one wing remain weak, flight is impossible. Not until the world of women becomes equal to the world of men in the acquisition of virtues and perfections, can success and prosperity be attained as they ought to be.”
‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 302
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