Find your voice against Gender Violence by Meera Vijayann
Meera Vijayann talks about an important topic, the violence against women, using India as an example. She gives her own personal experiences of her life there and what she did to express her thoughts on the issue. As a writer she used a site called IReport, a citizen journalism channel in which she recorded herself discussing how it was like to live in India and the true reality of it. There she discovered that she was not alone in this dilemma, that their were women and men all over India and the world that had the same mindset as her and that wanted to fight against this societal war.
Meera also talked of how women must speak up when she says “Most of us say that women are denied their rights but the truth is, oftentimes, women deny themselves these rights”, that when women speak up they are not just speaking for themselves but for their friends and their peers. Also that empowerment is not a result but an emotion. With empowerment one sheds the shame and the fear of speaking up and acts. More and more people are coming together to combat this problem and you can can see it for example in a graphic that Meera showed where Indian men put on skirts to show that clothes does not bring on rape.
In the Great Gatsby, Myrtle is violently hit by Tom when they were in New York City. Daisy also says in the beginning of the text that she had a bruise on her hand and that Tom had inflicted it on her. Through all these examples and the characteristics of Tom, which were a controlling and stern man, one can see how he was violent to women. The American dream to me would be a world where both genders, more towards women, can feel safe when going into society. That these barbaric ways be in the past and create a more equal and non-violent community.
Meera also talked of how women must speak up when she says “Most of us say that women are denied their rights but the truth is, oftentimes, women deny themselves these rights”, that when women speak up they are not just speaking for themselves but for their friends and their peers. Also that empowerment is not a result but an emotion. With empowerment one sheds the shame and the fear of speaking up and acts. More and more people are coming together to combat this problem and you can can see it for example in a graphic that Meera showed where Indian men put on skirts to show that clothes does not bring on rape.
In the Great Gatsby, Myrtle is violently hit by Tom when they were in New York City. Daisy also says in the beginning of the text that she had a bruise on her hand and that Tom had inflicted it on her. Through all these examples and the characteristics of Tom, which were a controlling and stern man, one can see how he was violent to women. The American dream to me would be a world where both genders, more towards women, can feel safe when going into society. That these barbaric ways be in the past and create a more equal and non-violent community.