Necessary Sins: Mona Eltahawy and Leila Slimani
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2021
- Warning: This video contains strong language that may be unsuitable for younger audiences. Viewer discretion advised.
With the support of the French Embassy in Ireland
Two of the foremost commentators on feminism and the Arab and Muslim worlds come together for what promises to be an electrifying conversation.
A lifelong political commentator and activist, Mona Eltahawy’s The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is a call to arms for feminists across the world. Unflinching in its analysis of patriarchal violence, the book is bold and uncompromising, laying out a manifesto on how women and girls are compelled away from the very qualities that comprise their most powerful tools for liberation.
In contemporary Morocco, adultery, abortion, homosexuality, sex work and all non-marital sexual relationships are criminalized, often in the same legislative language of the French colonial occupation, and women face the harshest punishments of all. Leila Slimani’s Sex and Lies confront these intimate demons with a series of vivid, often harrowing testimonies from Moroccan women, and her own passionate and sensitive analyses.
Eltahawy is a feminist author whose writing and activism have earned her plaudits across the world. Her books, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution and The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, have been translated into over a dozen languages.
Beside her career as a journalist and commentator, Slimani is a celebrated novelist, and was the first Moroccan woman to win France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.
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So much respect for these three amazing ladies. Its because of ladies like these that all women get their freedom.
So much respect for these 3 women.
My warmest regards from France.
I am French, a feminist and an atheist.
However I agree with everything which is said here.
We will keep fighting.
The first thing is to get rid of that mental illness called religion. Only after that can you really tackle these issues. Because if you think that a magic man controls everything, how can you think logically about anything? And i think shouting and swearing and calling people fascists is unhelpful (look up the dictionary definition of fascist if necessary because it has a tightly defined meaning).
Brilliant discussion 💕💕💕
Wonderful!
Brilliant women .what a pleasure to listen to them
Feminism terrifies me and I am a woman
Sad discussion
You are the most extreme comment on this channel. Never seen or heard a woman ever criticise feminism, especially in a post-LGBTQIA, free internet porn and internet free speech world.
Aow
f()ke u all
I have so much respect and appreciation for these women, but I fundamentally disagree about their point on anger. Anger is not a quality anybody is born with or a human right but an emotion everybody experiences at some point in life. To use anger as a fuel simply burns everybody involved as it is a fuel to itself. To act or solve a problem from a place of anger is always a weak act or solution, often leading to violence, to self or other, whether verbal, physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, moral, material, cultural, etc.... This inevitably eludes our own truth/purpose and that of the situation. Compassionate courage, righteous resolve and tough love, is what is needed in the face of adversity not anger. Anger is the weak, ignorant or intellectually challenged person's tool, or that of somebody who has already lost, like the playground bully or an immature child, or a terrorist, NOT that of a self-empowered, intelligent, emotionally and spiritually evolved persons.
I'm sorry I have to disagree. As James Baldwin said "to be black and conscious is to be in a constant state of agitation". From a black perspective. The passive, gentle approach was taken by our ancestors and where did that get them? One white man; king Leopold of Belgium killed 10million Congolese, that's just one country alone. I'm angry and furious about the suffering and hate people of colour have been and are still being subjected to. It is that anger and frustration that helps mobilise people into action by protesting and fighting for change.
Too extreme.
Without man or woman what would the world become.
As this debate moves on,I cannot help feeling those women are discriminatory.
A platform to just use language that offend.
Fair enough patriarchy per se has been abusive discriminatory.I have had enough of this ultra extreme bullshit.
They are not showing any respect to Humanity.