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The 24-Hour Truce That Never Happened
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"What would you say to 500 men if you could? This is what I said, how I used my chance....

What I would like to do is to scream: and in that scream I would have the screams of the raped, and the sobs of the battered; and even worse, in the center of that scream I would have the deafening sound of women's silence, that silence into which we are born because we are women and in which most of us die....

And also: that we do not have time. We women. We don't have forever. Some of us don't have another week or another day to take time for you to discuss whatever it is that will enable you to go out into those streets and do something.

The men reacted with considerable love and support and also with considerable anger... Only one man in the 500 threatened me physically. He was stopped by a woman bodyguard (and friend) who had accompanied me."

- Andrea Dworkin, excerpted from the speech, "I Want a 24-hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape" found in the book Transforming a Rape Culture. The speech above was given in 1983 (the italic text was part of the introduction in the printed article). That 24-hour truce still hasn't happened.

October 23, 2008 | 6:55 PM Comments  0 comments

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