Girl: What's your dream, Gong-ju?
Gong-ju: To swim across the pool.
Girl: Just 25 metres?
[Gong-ju nods]
Gong-ju: 'Cause if you sink, you die.
*
“The object, the woman, goes out into the world formed as men have formed her to be used as men wish to use her. The object provokes its use. It provokes its use because of its form, determined by the one who is provoked. When the object complains about the use to which she is put, she is told, simply and firmly, not to provoke.”
― Andrea Dworkin
*
I dream of a better world for girls and women everywhere. I dream of a better world for Han Gong-ju.
This had me sobbing my eyes out. So simplistic. So heartwrenching in it's simplicity.
Girl: What's your dream, Gong-ju?
Gong-ju: To swim across the pool.
Girl: Just 25 metres?
[Gong-ju nods]
Gong-ju: 'Cause if you sink, you die.
*
“The object, the woman, goes out into the world formed as men have formed her to be used as men wish to use her. The object provokes its use. It provokes its use because of its form, determined by the one who is provoked. When the object complains about the use to which she is put, she is told, simply and firmly, not to provoke.”
― Andrea Dworkin
*
I dream of a better world for girls and women everywhere. I dream of a better world for Han Gong-ju.
This had me sobbing my eyes out. So simplistic. So heartwrenching in it's simplicity.
