Eve Ensler: The profound power of an authentic apology
Eve Ensler: El profundo poder de una disculpa auténtica
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.
desafiando a los hombres.
we need to do something even harder.
tenemos que hacer algo aún más difícil.
Tony Porter says,
mi buen amigo Tony Porter,
de convocar a los hombres.
when I was five years old.
de mí cuando yo tenía cinco años.
in the middle of the night.
en medio de la noche.
hasta que cumplí 10 años.
fui capaz de decir que no,
cuando yo tenía 10 años,
and shame all the time,
culpa y vergüenza todo el tiempo,
y mujeres peligrosas
to treat me badly,
invitaba, a tratarme mal,
taught me love was.
que eso era el amor.
for my father to apologize to me.
a que mi padre se disculpara.
scandals of famous men,
de hombres famosos,
or physical violence
o violencia física
deep apology be like?
auténtica y profunda.
began to come through me.
comenzó a resonar en mí.
ser el camino para seguir adelante
the way to move forward
las mujeres de las que ellos abusan.
self-interrogation and time.
autocuestionamieno y tiempo.
tiene cuatro pasos
I'd like to take you through them.
what, in detail, you did.
que decir, en detalle, lo que hicieron.
de ti sexualmente"
lo que realmente ocurrió.
in the middle of the night,
en medio de la noche,
I was jealous of you
porque estaba celoso de ti
actually did occur.
is you have to ask yourself why.
que preguntarse por qué.
son perseguidos por el porqué.
to sexually abuse his eldest daughter?
abusar sexualmente de su hija mayor?
and smash it against a wall?
y la aplastaría contra una pared?
the other children.
that became "the miracle."
en "el milagro".
as the golden boy.
en realidad, no es amor.
hacia uno mismo
para que uno sea perfecto.
to this impossible ideal,
de este ideal imposible,
se le permitió ser él mismo.
all those feelings underground,
todos esos sentimientos
later became Shadowman,
se convirtieron en "Shadow Man",
his torrent on me.
ese torrente sobre mí.
to open your heart
que abrir el corazón
as you were abusing her.
por estar abusando de ella.
of your abuse on your victim.
del abuso en la víctima.
you have caused.
con el sufrimiento que ha causado.
for what you have done
por lo que se ha hecho
such a grueling and humbling process?
este proceso tan agotador y humillante?
that will set yourself free.
de poder liberarse.
that will set your victim free.
que va a liberar a su víctima.
violence on another person
violencia sobre otra persona
from the effects themselves.
and contaminating spirit,
muy oscuro y contaminante,
throughout your entire life.
a lo largo de toda la vida.
we have to look through
con la tenemos que mirar
of men's violence
de la violencia de los hombres
other women have survived.
de mujeres han sobrevivido.
en el castigo en primer lugar.
pero en realidad,
sometimes is effective,
but it doesn't teach us.
pero no nos enseña.
that may involve punishment,
un proceso que puede implicar la pena,
something and someone else.
pueden convertirse en algo y alguien más.
connected to my father's story.
conectada a la historia de mi padre.
wasn't just for my father to be stopped.
que mi padre dejara de hacerlo.
los hombres sean destruidos,
sean castigados solamente.
the victims that they have harmed,
a las víctimas que han perjudicado,
que es el camino a seguir.
se unan a nosotras.
and be part of this transformation.
valientes y parte de esta transformación.
calling men out,
desafiando a los hombres,
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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