The summary of the video as stated on TED is, "In this passionate talk, Eve Ensler declares that there is a girl cell in us all -- a cell that we have all been taught to suppress. She tells heartfelt stories of girls around the world who have overcome shocking adversity and violence to reveal the astonishing strength of being a girl."
Eve asks, "how do we bring up boys?" She believes, "being a girl is so powerful, that we had to train everyone not to be that." The world has denied us in being girls, and we are forced to surpress our emotions and that is why we have not made a difference.
Reading peoples responses, I saw this one post below,
This video and this comment reminds me of Simone De Beauvoir and her stance that being dependent makes one in a position to be inferior. Simone asks, if a woman is made or if she was born a woman. After this video, one can realize that one has always been born a woman, but has been forced to please men, to change who they are, who was trained into the behaviors of a feminine female. Women, biologically are born female, they however do become the other man, because of normative gender roles. This guy above proves that this is just another gender role society has placed on women. Yes, some women do watch and read and do the things he listed, but Eve has never mentioned their hobbies. She just states our characteristic traits that men what to take away from us because it makes us "weak," but it really makes us more connected and stronger.
You should watch this video below.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1cwx4L/:16A$0bl_4:c@2luLI9/www.ted.com/talks/eve_ensler_embrace_your_inner_girl.html/
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