Comments on: Sexual Revolution, Social Change, Political Reform in Iran – Complicated Intersections http://savageminds.org/2009/08/30/sexual-revolution-social-change-political-reform-in-iran-%e2%80%93-complicated-intersections/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Sat, 26 May 2012 03:33:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: dr.e http://savageminds.org/2009/08/30/sexual-revolution-social-change-political-reform-in-iran-%e2%80%93-complicated-intersections/comment-page-1/#comment-616885 dr.e Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:41:23 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=2709#comment-616885 I loved your honesty about how your mind goes two steps forward and one step back to rethink. Powerful and honest way to process one's thoughts. Powerful example to others. Also, wanted to mention, as one of the so-called baby boomers, that I spit nails everytime I hear the tired and untruthful tropes about 'free love' and 'drop out' and all that. Huge numbers of us were not dropping anything other than a few coins for a cold CocaCola on a Saturday night after a week working our rear ends off, raising kids and following social justice principles that came from our faiths, not from some spaced out hippie. Those social justice principles were/ are about how to make a phony system, (At that time re sending our generation's young into the VietNam war that could not be won, and other murderous disconnecting of reason and humanity) reorder itself re less than 100 men deciding war for everyone, and the suppression of the poor, the minorities, the elderly, and women so that only a certain class of people had access and opportunity. Thanks again. Dr.E. I loved your honesty about how your mind goes two steps forward and one step back to rethink. Powerful and honest way to process one’s thoughts. Powerful example to others.

Also, wanted to mention, as one of the so-called baby boomers, that I spit nails everytime I hear the tired and untruthful tropes about ‘free love’ and ‘drop out’ and all that.

Huge numbers of us were not dropping anything other than a few coins for a cold CocaCola on a Saturday night after a week working our rear ends off, raising kids and following social justice principles that came from our faiths, not from some spaced out hippie.

Those social justice principles were/ are about how to make a phony system, (At that time re sending our generation’s young into the VietNam war that could not be won, and other murderous disconnecting of reason and humanity) reorder itself re less than 100 men deciding war for everyone, and the suppression of the poor, the minorities, the elderly, and women so that only a certain class of people had access and opportunity.

Thanks again.

Dr.E.

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]]> By: RA Kashanipour http://savageminds.org/2009/08/30/sexual-revolution-social-change-political-reform-in-iran-%e2%80%93-complicated-intersections/comment-page-1/#comment-616461 RA Kashanipour Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:00:34 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=2709#comment-616461 I would just like to acknowledge how wonderfully thoughtful I found this post. Rarely do we in academia publicly acknowledge the limitations, shortcomings or blindspots of our work. I would just like to acknowledge how wonderfully thoughtful I found this post. Rarely do we in academia publicly acknowledge the limitations, shortcomings or blindspots of our work.

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]]> By: John McCreery http://savageminds.org/2009/08/30/sexual-revolution-social-change-political-reform-in-iran-%e2%80%93-complicated-intersections/comment-page-1/#comment-616460 John McCreery Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:22:09 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=2709#comment-616460 It would be interesting to see comparative data from other cases of attempted or successful social revolution. Without being able to lay my hands on sources, I find myself recalling that calls for free love, gender equality, and breaking down "feudal" family systems were all core elements in the Communist Revolution in China. And certainly for people in my now aging 1960s generation in the USA, liberated sexuality and violation of dress codes and other social taboos was very much a part of efforts to "tear down the system." We should note, however, how much of the reactionary and fundamentalist religious right's response to social changes in race and gender relations is fueled by rage at what is seen as the left's immorality. It would be interesting to see comparative data from other cases of attempted or successful social revolution. Without being able to lay my hands on sources, I find myself recalling that calls for free love, gender equality, and breaking down “feudal” family systems were all core elements in the Communist Revolution in China. And certainly for people in my now aging 1960s generation in the USA, liberated sexuality and violation of dress codes and other social taboos was very much a part of efforts to “tear down the system.” We should note, however, how much of the reactionary and fundamentalist religious right’s response to social changes in race and gender relations is fueled by rage at what is seen as the left’s immorality.

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