Eve Ensler: The profound power of an authentic apology
إيف انسلر: القوة العميقة لاعتذار حقيقي
Eve Ensler created the ground-breaking "Vagina Monologues," whose success propelled her to found V-Day -- a movement to end violence against women and girls everywhere. Full bio
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we've been calling men out.
كنّا نشجب الرّجال ونحمِل عليهم.
we need to do something even harder.
إلى أن نفعل شيئا ما أصعب.
Tony Porter says,
when I was five years old.
عندما كنت في الخامسة من عمري.
in the middle of the night.
حتى أصبحت في العاشرة.
على أن أقول لا.
عندما كنت في العاشرة،
and shame all the time,
والشعور بالذنب والعار،
to treat me badly,
بمعاملتي بإساءة،
taught me love was.
for my father to apologize to me.
scandals of famous men,
or physical violence
deep apology be like?
began to come through me.
أن أكتبه من أجله،
the way to move forward
اعتدوا عليهنّ.
self-interrogation and time.
ويتطلب وقتًا.
I'd like to take you through them.
يمكنني أن آخذك إليها.
what, in detail, you did.
in the middle of the night,
I was jealous of you
actually did occur.
is you have to ask yourself why.
to sexually abuse his eldest daughter?
أن يعتدي جنسيًا على ابنته الكبرى؟
and smash it against a wall?
ويضربه بالحائط؟
the other children.
بعد فترة طويلة من أخوته.
that became "the miracle."
as the golden boy.
وعومل على أنه الفتى الذهبي.
لا يكون حُبًا.
to this impossible ideal,
مع هذه المثالية غير الممكنة،
all those feelings underground,
تلك المشاعر تحت السطح،
later became Shadowman,
أصبحت رجل ظلٍ فيما بعد،
his torrent on me.
to open your heart
as you were abusing her.
عندما كنت تعتدي عليها.
of your abuse on your victim.
من جراء عدوانك.
you have caused.
for what you have done
such a grueling and humbling process?
أن يمر بهذه العملية المنهكة والمذلة؟
that will set yourself free.
that will set your victim free.
violence on another person
from the effects themselves.
and contaminating spirit,
throughout your entire life.
we have to look through
of men's violence
other women have survived.
sometimes is effective,
but it doesn't teach us.
لكنه لا يضيف لنا شيئًا.
that may involve punishment,
لابتكار عملية قد تتضمن العقاب،
something and someone else.
كنت أريده قابعًا في السجن.
connected to my father's story.
هذا الغضب جعلني مرتبطة بقصة أبي.
wasn't just for my father to be stopped.
the victims that they have harmed,
نحن ضحاياهم اللواتي ألحقوا بنا الأذى،
and be part of this transformation.
وأن يكونوا جزءًا من هذا التغيير.
calling men out,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Eve Ensler - Playwright, activistEve Ensler created the ground-breaking "Vagina Monologues," whose success propelled her to found V-Day -- a movement to end violence against women and girls everywhere.
Why you should listen
Inspired by intimate conversations with friends, Eve Ensler wrote The Vagina Monologues. The play recounts tender, funny, gripping and horrifying stories she gathered from hundreds of women about their bodies, their sexual experiences, and yes, their vaginas. Since its first staging in 1996, it has been translated into more than 45 languages, performed in more than 120 countries and re-created as an HBO film.
The Vagina Monologues' success allowed Ensler to create V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, which has so far raised $85 million to prevent violence and protect abused women. In February 2011, Ensler received the Isabelle Stephenson Tony Award for her philanthropic work. Ensler has also drawn praise for The Good Body, a play that cuts to women's obsession with their appearance, and her film What I Want My Words to Do to You, which portrays a writing group she leads at a correctional facility for women. Today, she continues to find new projects and push the envelope. Her latest play, I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World, hit the New York Times bestseller list and just wrapped a workshop production in Johannesburg -- nest stop is Paris and then Berkeley in June 2012.
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