"Violence against women was never a women’s issue. We took it on because nobody else was taking it on. We don’t rape ourselves, it turns out. This has always been a men’s issue. Now men need to make it their issue.
They need to say we care as much about this as we care about sports, as we care about any of the things that occupy us because our sisters, our mothers, our daughters, our grandmothers, our wives, our girlfriends are suffering in a very major way in this world. One out of three of us are being beaten and raped every day. Every day!
We lived with this forever. It’s killed our will. It’s killed our sex drive. It’s killed off our intelligence. It’s killed off our agency. It’s killed off our ability to be employed. It’s a sickness in this society and men need to take this moment and say, ‘We care. We’re gonna change. We’re gonna look into our hearts and souls and figure out what went wrong and what patriarchy has done to us or we’re not gonna be here anymore.’
We will perish as human beings because the people who run things now are the most misogynist predators who are not only destroying women, but they’re destroying the planet, they’re destroying poor people, they’re destroying African Americans, they’re destroying Mexicans, they’re destroying Muslims. They’re destroying anymore who isn’t a white man. and this is our hour. We’re here. Either we change now or we perish."
— Eve Ensler on WTF with Marc Maron
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