One of my favorite Ted Talks. One of many. But I think this is important cause it clearly shows to men that feminism isn't just about women getting paid well. It's about an attitude, it's about human inter-relations. It's about saving humans from self-destructing.
It was rape cuz "While [she] never said NO, she never said YES"
I need to start a feminist Blog. I need to do something.
It's burning inside me, this problem, this need to help women, to save men, to tell the truth to save us from our boxes, our impoverished hearts, our cages. The lack of freedom. Men cannot be free till women are free.
I need to get involved, and I want it to be bigger then what I'm doing I want to be in danger, I wanna go places where no one speaks my language, and all I have is love, and my overwhelming knowledge that our common humanity is the most important thing, and that with that knowledge, and with love, we can tear down these regimes, these ideological systems which cage men so that they cannot connect to women, cannot respect women.
These regimes, these ideas destroy women, over and over, starve rape beat women, over and over, deprive them of education, of a life and thus the world exists in poverty, starving spiritually, starving emotionally, starving physically.
And oh, if we all cared about that, about others, instead of our pockets, instead of our safety, our social security checks. Yesterday it was ruled that insurance needs to cover birth control without a co-pay. What a victory. And yet, we must take a step back.
This is a victory?
This should be the norm, the accepted, the obvious OF COURSE women need access to birth control. Instead of denying them rights to abortions because abortions offend your moral system, teach women to respect themselves so that they DEMAND that men use a condom, they demand inexpensive birth control options from their government, their healthcare provider. They DEMAND sex education for their children. So that men will respect women, and not be afraid to use condoms, in fact, they would never consider having sex withOUT one, or another form of birth control, because they respect women too much too put their physical and mental well-being at risk. Where men don't look at pornography because they respect women, and refuse to engage in a culture which OBJECTIFIES women. Objectifies their mother, and their sister, and their friends, and their lovers. So that men realize they cannot be happy unless women are also happy. They will remain enslaved as long as they allow women to be enslaved. Not just sex slaves, though that is the most violent, egregious and obvious example of this. But slaves in language. Because women are spoken of as sex objects. Slaves in images,where women are violently fetishized and shown in submissive behavior.
Americans could not be free while race based slavery existed, for to deny the humanity of your brother is such a terrifying evil, a plague, which infects and destroys all it touches. Neither can the world be free while slavery exists, and the greatest form of enslavement which exists in 2011 is gender slavery.
I am so mad.
I am so mad
But I'm gonna do something about, I'm gonna do something YOU GOTTA DO SOMETHING ABOUT,WE GOTTA CHANGE THINGS.
No one else is gonna do it for you.
And if your world is shit its "nobodies fault but [your] own". What is it, you have to be the change in the world you want to see...
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