On 17 April 2015,
I, Kyoka Yahabha, managed to miss two hours of math
I did not consider it absent.
You may wonder how you did this.
She was sexually assaulted on the train that morning.
Now, I say it out loud,
You may have caused some of you discomfort.
I hope my great response will ease this little bit.
I’m not here to tell you what happened that day,
Or my sense of time.
I am not here to gain your sympathy.
I am here to address the larger issue we face in society: sexual prejudice.
It is behavior, circumstances, or attitudes
Which promote stereotypes of social roles based on the sex of the person.
To talk about sexual bias,
I’ll talk about what happened after the attack on me.
I study at a Japanese high school.
When my school came to the incident,
Teachers separated girls and boys in separate classes.
Girls were told to line up at the back of the row,
While three teachers assessed the skirts length of the girls.
If your tan is considered “too short,” be sure to summon your parents.
This may seem a military scene from a film,
But this is quite normal in a Japanese high school.
However, this routine examination in particular was different from the others.
The teachers sat all the girls.
They told us that girls should have more pride in how to present themselves.
“Short skirts ask for something bad”
“Long skirts give a sense of decency.”
They did not end there.
They told us that the girls cheated the boys.
Personally, is my open knee attractive?
I felt flattered. I mean this really?
I received attention.
But they said the mistake was our fault when sexual assault occurred
Because we are children.
Later that day, I spoke to one of my male friends
Which was in another row.
When I asked him if he was given the same talk about sexual abuse,
He gave me a strange look and said:
“What are you talking about?
We did not give this speech at all. We were told to tighten our panties. “
I am not a researcher at Rhodes University,
But tying pants is not a big issue
Compared to sexual assault.
I was really confused that day.
How are boys not given the same talk as girls?
Why and girls scolded for sexual abuse?
I decided to turn to feminism as a way to combat sexual prejudice in society.
By hearing “feminism”
Some of you may have an allergic reaction to it.
You might say, “My God, it’s just another feminist who hates men.”
Well, if you look at the fundamentals of feminism,
You will find it quite different from modern feminism.
Examples include Mary Woolstoncraft.
Marie Wlostenkraft was a post-revolutionary French writer.
Her writings on equal rights for men and women
Formed the foundations of modern feminism.
Mary Wollstonecraft had this idea.
That if the qualities in men have more considerations than women,
Why do women not take those qualities?
This means being more assertive, more academic, and less emotional
The results were male women.
The ideal for men.
To be more compassionate, less aggressive, and loving
It was the result of the female men.
I decided to incorporate these theories into my daily life to combat sexual prejudice.
In the annual Dodgeball contest at my high school,
I, (Kyoka Yahabha), managed to turn all of my female colleagues into gangs.
I’m not kidding, this is a picture.
(Laughter)
Before each game, I was given a lively and enthusiastic conversation among the girls.
I gathered them and said to them, “Now hear.
They stripped yourselves of the weak noses that they put at the door.
And show the masculine side Veken. “
I have the strangest expressions in my life.
Their tongue was saying, “What are you talking about?”
I decided to repeat myself.
I told them to become gorillas.
Surprisingly, it worked.
That day, we were wonderful, we defeated everyone.
The boys heard the gorillas’ uprising, and they came,
You could see their funny faces.
They seemed to be witnessing this new breed.
We girls, we were strong, brave, and certainly male.
Marie Wollstonecraft’s idea of masculine women
It was much easier than her idea of female men.
I had to follow a different approach.
I started small, and was given an offer in English share
About today in the life of women,
Highlighting the precautions that women must face every day
To ensure that they are not caught in a bad condition.
Now, keep in mind, during this show,
Brought scarves, nice accessories, hair ties,
And made the men in the row dressed in it.
She also brought a skirt for the English teacher to wear.
And made him stand before all
She also explained the different labels faced by women
Because of the shortness of her skirt.
All men were turned into female men.
This has been imposed,
But I wanted everyone to know
That no one was hurt during this experience,
So I call it a success.
But after my presentation, the English teacher came to me.
I thought he would tell me, “Kyuka, what you did was too much,
You had to calm down a bit. “
But I was surprised to thank him.
He said that made him think about how to deal with his daughter and son
So consider them equally.
So, after hearing that from the English teacher,
There was a spark in me, and the fire went up.
So wandered in school, I asked some men
If they will participate in my next project,
Is to wear the hair ties again
And take them pictures.
These are just a few of them, men of my class.
As you can see, they were really cooperative and accepted the subject with a warm welcome.
I realized that when we walked the miles of the opposite shoes of the opposite sex,
We will be able to look at them with respect and understanding.
Only then will we be able to seek and combat sexual prejudice in society.
If you are a woman, try to be a masculine woman.
If you are a man, try to be a female man.
thank you.
(clap)
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