The Responsibility of Men

This is so wonderful to listen to - and it makes me really happy. I would love to share it with you.
You can listen to the recording (highly recommended as it's therapeutic to hear this and you can download it so you can listen whenever you'd like), and you can also read the transcript here.

It's a very well written piece based on the Baha'i Writings from several men's point of view...

I love this part (and many of the parts actually):

Not until men work on these issues at the appropriate psychological level will they find effective and lasting change taking place. The Universal House of Justice has identified the level at which men need to work in the paragraph from The Promise of World Peace which was quoted above. It is the level of habits and attitudes - levels that are not directly accessible to intellectual idealism and the decisions of the "normal everyday consciousness."

I submit that there need to be programs that treat sexism and all other learned oppressions as human problems and not as "women's problems" or "black's problems," or another oppressed group's problems. Then each group must work at addressing their own particular difficulties.

Wow. Makes me think of

• healthy loving marriages (of course), but also
• education for sustainable development,
  
• helping men who may feel alone find a way to focus their great energies,
  
• of children's classes,
• we need to educate the children now in equality of women and men and all that goes with it - so that the future marriages, childhoods, and societies can be much much better
  
• of better relationships between women and men,
  
• more unity, more harmony, more effective studying and projects together,
  
• less loneliness, less anger, less despair.
  
• More hope.

I totally want to do a workshop just on this article alone.