Eve Enslers view on social justice

Enslers view on social justice is different from others in the fact that she views the women who had been through such atrocities as being stronger. where aaron huey depicts the native americans as purely victims, Ensler depicts her “victims” as strong girls who even though these atrocities happened to them they still live on and use it to teach others. 

“I actually think that being a girl is so powerful that we’ve had to train everyone not to be that.”

girls have power, even though they don’t necessarily know it. 

Ensler was similar to other speakers in the fact that she used the statistics of injustice to grip our attention

‘In the Congo, for those of you who don’t know, there has been a war raging for the last 12 years, a war that has killed nearly six million people. It is estimated that somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 women have been raped there.’ 

Statistics like these work they hold the audience and in a way act as a call to action, making us want to change the problem and stand up against the injustice. I think that is why every speaker we have heard thus far has used them.

her view is the same in that she believes there needs to be a change to these attrocities.

 

One thought on “Eve Enslers view on social justice

  1. hlm812 says:

    I enjoyed the fact that you talked about the “victims” as being “strong girls”. It summed up a good bit of Eve’s speech. I hadn’t thought of Eve using statistics as a common factor between the rest of the social justice videos. But you’re right! Good observation!

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