Eve Ensler: The profound power of an authentic apology
ایو انسلر: قدرت بیحد و اندازه عذرخواهی واقعی
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.
ما مردان را بازخواست کرده ایم.
we need to do something even harder.
که باید کاری حتی سخت تر انجام بدهیم.
Tony Porter says,
تونی پورتر می گوید،
when I was five years old.
سوء استفاده ی جنسی از من کرد.
in the middle of the night.
تا ۱۰ سالگی ام ادامه داشت.
and shame all the time,
گناه و شرمساری می کردم،
to treat me badly,
تا با من بدرفتاری کنند،
taught me love was.
for my father to apologize to me.
پدرم از من عذرخواهی کند.
scandals of famous men,
مردان مشهور،
or physical violence
deep apology be like?
چگونه خواهد بود؟
began to come through me.
the way to move forward
راه عبور از بحرانی باشد
از آنها سوءاستفاده جنسی می کنند.
self-interrogation and time.
I'd like to take you through them.
what, in detail, you did.
اقرار کنید که چکار کرده اید .
in the middle of the night,
I was jealous of you
actually did occur.
واقعا اتفاق افتاده.
is you have to ask yourself why.
باید از خود بپرسید چرا.
ذهنشان پر از چرا است.
to sexually abuse his eldest daughter?
بزرگترین دخترش آزار جنسی برساند؟
and smash it against a wall?
the other children.
از دیگر فرزندان به دنیا آمده بود.
that became "the miracle."
as the golden boy.
شاهزاده با او رفتار می کردند.
نیاز دارد شما..
to this impossible ideal,
ناممکن می شد.
که خودش باشد.
all those feelings underground,
درون خود نگه دارد،
later became Shadowman,
بعدها تبدیل به نیروی تاریکی شدند،
his torrent on me.
بر من رها کرد.
to open your heart
as you were abusing her.
احساس می کرد شما نیز احساس کنید.
of your abuse on your victim.
بر روی قربانی را حس کنید.
you have caused.
for what you have done
such a grueling and humbling process?
عاجزانه و خاضعانه ای را انجام دهد؟
that will set yourself free.
that will set your victim free.
violence on another person
from the effects themselves.
and contaminating spirit,
به شدت تاریک و آلوده می کند،
throughout your entire life.
we have to look through
باید از درون شان نگاه کنیم
of men's violence
other women have survived.
جان سالم بدر بردیم.
مجازات روبه رو می شویم.
sometimes is effective,
but it doesn't teach us.
اما به ما یاد نمی دهد.
that may involve punishment,
گرچه شاید مجازات دربر داشته باشد،
something and someone else.
connected to my father's story.
در ارتباط نگه داشت.
wasn't just for my father to be stopped.
فقط این نبود که جلوی او گرفته شود.
the victims that they have harmed,
قربانی هایی که به آنها صدمه وارد کردند،
تاثیر مثبت خواهد داشت.
and be part of this transformation.
و بخشی از این تغییر باشند
calling men out,
بازخواست مردادن گذراندم،
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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