ONE BILLION RISING is a short film by Eve Ensler and South African filmmaker Tony Stroebel.
One in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. This powerful three minute film reminds us how violence against women appears worldwide in the every day lives of women, from Afghanistan to Australia, the United States to Peru, South Africa to Great Britain. One billion women violated is an atrocity. On 14 February 2013, V-Day's 15th anniversary, one billion women dancing will be a revolution. After viewing this film, we hope millions will be inspired to join the ONE BILLION RISING campaign.
"When we started V-Day 14 years ago, we had the outrageous idea that we could end violence against women," said Ensler. "One Billion Rising is an appreciation, amplification and an escalation. When One Billion bodies rise and dance on 14 February 2013, we will join in solidarity, purpose and energy and shake the world into a new consciousness. Dancing insists we take up space. It has no set direction but we go there together. It's dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive. It breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere at anytime with anyone and everyone. It's free. No corporation can control it. It joins us and pushes us to go further. It's contagious and it spreads quickly. It's of the body. It's transcendent."
On 14 February 2013, V-Day's 15th anniversary, activists, writers, thinkers, celebrities and women and men across the world will STRIKE, DANCE, and RISE, coming together to express their outrage, and demand an end to violence against women and girls.
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misogygy (mi·sog·y·ny) - the hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women.
The sexual, physical, and emotional exploitation of women is worldwide and pandemic. In most cultures misogyny is the standard of female existence…even illustrious. In modern cultures it’s symptomatically subtle. Misogyny is a heritage that belongs solely to women. It’s a birthright with a significance that can never be experienced by men regardless of intention or education. Misogyny will never fully cease to exist. The most women can hope for is the choice to receive it, resist it, or reckon with it. By law, a minority of women have that choice. It was granted to them, by men.
Misogyny is not to be confused with male social dominance.
Perpetual warfare, the epidemic raping of women and children, the destruction of the planet's biosphere ---- To paraphrase Pablo Neruda, "Is this the world men have created? Oh my god, oh my god . . . ."
Further, you blame men solely for all the misfortune in the world when we, men and women, have had a hand. Parents, usually with a mother as a primary caretaker, are taught to be physical, aggressive, mask their feelings, etc. Society reinforces gender roles by looking toward men as women's protectors and so forth. Thus, women play a role in the current atrocities committed against them, too.
Stereotyping all men as evil and not assuming any of the blame will never get you anywhere as you scream from your soapbox.
Since it has been observed in several studies that aggression has increased in chemically castrated men and testosterone without the presence of estrogen leads to a decrease in aggression, testosterone itself is ruled out.
Testosterone causing male aggression simply because of increased muscle mass, i.e. men are bigger than women, doesn't hold water because it is only advantageous in one on one situations, not in groups and thus, communities.
That last thought is what lead me to this:
http://www.unicef.org/emerg/files/male_roles.pdf
It's a synopsis of the way in which both sexes teach and enforce the male gender role. Please at least read the background.
Further, the growing research on damages inflicted by corporal punishment, i.e. spanking, of children and it's prevalence (over 70% in America), which begins before most children can talk and it's obvious we as a society need to change. CP has consistently been shown to lead to increased aggression.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/125/5/e1057.long
Research has consistently shown that CP is utilized more often on boys than girls. In the west, CP is used in >70% of households and it tends to be mom who disciplines children (most likely because mom tends to be primary care taker).
We all need to do our part to end this cycle by changing the way we raise our children and teach and enforce gender roles within our society.
I raised my sons to be peaceful and cooperative, and that is how they behave now as grown men. However I can't tell you how many posts by men I've read where I'm told that what I did was "feminize" them or destroy their masculine essence. Of course they're both strong, healthy guys who compete in triathlons and half marathons on a regular basis, but the very fact that they're gentlemen (literally) is disparaged by many male posters here as evidence their mom hates men.
Your entire posts still leans heavily on pointing the finger at others. Why do you think blaming others is the best way to accomplish your goals? It's divisive, doing more harm than good.
The portion I wrote about CP was intended to be my own thoughts, not highlight anything within the UNICEF article. I was trying to make the argument that one of the ways in which parents teach their children, especially boys, to be aggressive is by spanking them and the long term emotional damage that has been shown to arise from such forms of discipline.
--Eve Ensler's Opening remark as the Keynote Speaker, 2012 National NOW Conference
I, for one, enjoy Ensler's vaginal work, though even the word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina. They don't like hearing it and find it difficult to say whereas without batting an eye a man will refer to his dick or his rod or his Johnson.
And just as many women are uncomfortable hearing the anatomically correct word as men.
http://www.cotwa.info/2012/06/bygones-be-bygones-unspeakable.html
There's good money in faking a rape charge.
You must be disillusioned if you think women would be willed to go through the stigma attached to being a victim of rape. Rape is one of the most under-reported crimes. I am sick of the fact that there seems to be no space to discuss the real threat rape poses to women without someone pulling out false rape accusations. I am not saying these wouldn't take place at all, but this is not related to the actual discussion.
It happens everywhere where rape is discussed, always someone has to come up "but y u no think of all the poor men bla some random false accusation, now plz make it bout the menz" in a discussion that is ABOUT THE IMMEDIATE THREAT RAPE POSES TO WOMEN'S LIFES AND HEALTH EVERYWHERE.
What does one false accusation of rape even have to do with this very topic? Nothing. Quit this derailing.
It's comments like these that have no place in a discussion about rape.Comments like these, and the thinking behind it contribute to the fact that rape is one of the most under-reported crimes. 1 in 16 rapists will ever set a foot in prison, 1 BILLION women are subjected to the horrors of sexual assault but ofc it has to be about the men.
I am so sick of seeing that in every bloody discussion about rape, in comments on news about rape and sexual assault.
There are such astounding statistics on murder and crime in general. Understand (and this is why math is very important) that this statistic (1/3) has little to do with the probability of someone being raped in America, for example. There is legislation and there is enforcement. What there is not - for ALL crime - are resources. News is driven by ratings and profits.
There are also wars, uprisings in the Muslim world, and corruption. Those don't make the news too much in this coutnry either.
All developed countries keep stats on crimes. They're readily available to anyone who wants to investigate them. Get a research librarian to help you research this validity. Talk to the WHO about the issue. Developing countries keep stats that downplay their crime numbers; the 1 of 3 ratio is likely an underestimate. Undeveloped countries try to let these crimes go unnoticed, but NGOs keep track there.
Rape is less about the sex, than it is an expression of dominance and control.
Ergo lumping together beatings and rape is a valid method of categorizing.
The stats are unfortunate and saddening. At the same time, it is a reflection of who we are as a species. We have a long evolutionary way to go before some in society are able to overcome the prediction to express their desire for control through physical acts.
On the positive side, if one can look at this from that perspective, 1 in 3 subjected to this means conversely that 66% of the women do NOT experience these acts.
F&F
Why don't women find a way to stop women from doing evil in the world? For the same reason men don't. PEOPLE who don't have a clue what motivates a criminal to do a criminal act really don't seem to be very good at stopping criminals from doing what they do.
See how that works?
But don't let me interrupt your daily misogynist missive. Hating on woman is apparently a full time job for you, Mr. Mom.
What's worse than that, are the comments I'm reading on this page, that place blame on women for this beastly behavior, and infers responsibility for the atrocious acts inflicted--on women.
Really?!
If not...maybe you should.
I was speaking to the commonly made error of placing blame for rape, on the rape victim.
People who exploit the justice system, for personal gain, or otherwise--are despicable.
Being black, I am particularly aware that this type of person exists, and accordingly, that there are victims on both sides of the equation.