03 November 2017

"Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn’t about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn’t about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it’s about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing."

Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)


6 comments:

Ms. Moon said...

Thank you.
And I realize that this interview is about Hollywood but my god- it's so prevalent everywhere, this sort of power-behavior and women have GOT to stop remaining silent and enablers have GOT to stop their own behavior. I tend to think that almost every predator has enablers, from the pedophiles to the producers. As Emma said here, this sort of behavior has been happening since women were women. It's time for us, as a species, to do everything we can to end it.

ellen abbott said...

I think that's exactly it.

liv said...

Emma has always spoken her mind with grace and eloquence. Brava to her. I think good men need to speak up too, to those men that they know are doing things like this. Fathers have to teach sons and they all have to stop turning the other way when they see this going on. Secret keeps are a big part of this.

am said...

Thank you for this.

joared said...

I was glad when she spoke out and appreciate seeing the interview again here. More men need to speak up for sure. Certainly these issues prevalent in television industry and elsewhere I’ve seen or experienced. There are women initiaters quite willing to manipulate the men which complicates matters.

Colette said...

This is a basic human flaw that plays out in homes and workplaces throughout the world. A world in which the strong victimize the weak. A world without empathy. I have been feeling despair. Then yesterday I watched a video of Val Demings speaking at the NOW conference in Orlando last summer. She is member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida's 10th congressional district. She was talking about women's rights and struggles and comparing it to one of her heroes, Harriet Tubman - a woman who fought for racial equality against all the odds. Val Demings said this "“What was it about Harriett Tubman that made her say the taste of freedom is worse risking anything that they can do to stop me?

So I’m picking up my bible, and my shawl, and my shotgun and we’re going to march towards freedom.

That’s what Harriet Tubman said. And that’s what she did. I want you to know today that I don’t want to go back. You can’t make me go back. I’m not going back, but I’m going to rise up, and we’re going to rise up together.” That cheered me. Because that is what is happening right now. We are rising up together, calling out predators. Let's never stop, okay?