Price of Silence Response to Criticism of #EmmaWatsons #HeForShe Speech. We never posted the speech itself as our obligation is to women on the ground fighting for equality. We understood that many of our allies were posting the speech and articles about the speech. Price of Silence used that opportunity to supplement the work of many publishing the speech, by continuing with our normal content. There is a lot of criticism of Emmas #HeForShe speech now, and we feel that this criticism offers an important opportunity for discussion. Emma is a civilian, using her celebrity credit card to galvanize a discussion that is not just useful, or necessary, but also one that is long overdue. Women all over the world have spoken power to the same principles of Emmas speech over the course of history, long before there was a word to institutionalize a school of thought called feminism, in which women fighting for equality can find common efforts, matched to action. Women have always been on the front lines of independence as freedom fighters in the birth of nations, against colonialism, fighting for indigenous autonomy. creating art, aggrandizing economies, working lands, and doing more than can even be listed to aide societies everywhere. While in the face of violence to limit the opportunities of generations contemporarily and historically women have always on the frontline, that reality is often omitted to the point of social denial. Yet how often do you, and in what numbers do you, ever see men hit the streets in the name of social progress for women? Women face the same brutality by police and soldiers as men, yet when it happen to a woman, silence. Remember Alexander the Great was knocked off his horse and his reign of rampage in the Roman global acquisition of land ended with Candace the Empress of Ethiopia. That tradition of rich feminism has circulated from the battle fields of Nubia in 25c, across oceans and omitted pages of history, alongside human migration. Rani Laxmi Bai in 1857 became the face of rebellion after she boldly fought back against British rule in India. Tell me where the United States would be today without the spirit of Sojourner Truth? Womens her-story is the consummate part of history, and it has been omitted, because when you teach someone they dont have a history, when you teach women they have a singular purpose, then you can control womens minds, and if you have the mind, the body follows-No more. Emmas speech a speech, it is a rally call, from a woman using her celebrity to echo what we all know in our hearts, that human rights are womens rights, and womens rights is, has been and always will be human rights. We know in our minds from experiences that no one should ever be subjected to, that wherever women are denied their rights, humanity fails, and the theories which have actualized subjugation, oppression and dehumanization in all their forms thrive. Now I want to know how man, the men who sit upright in the UN, r how these so called leaders, plan to introduce and embolden civil society to act on the message of Emmas speech? We have heard so many parts of Emmas speech spoken in action by women on the ground in every part of the world-- Africa, Asia, Central, South America, Europe North America, and Australia. We see women on the ground, girls fighting for these principles every single day, risking everything. We see indigenous women asking #AmINext? We see treaties, but we see nothing getting done, and its time we get undone so that we can get going in the direction of action to match her-story with an effort to build a new society grounded int he principles of all our speeches combined.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 19:30:00 +0000
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