00:00This is 2017, when we can use our fingerprints to unlock our cell phones, make self-driving
00:05cars and live until over a hundred.
00:08But still, only 22% of all national parliamentarians are female.
00:13And 42% of the time, American women pay more than men for the same product.
00:17And 62 million girls worldwide are denied an education.
00:21This is 2017 and Stanford swimmer Brock Turner was released after only three months of jail
00:26even though he sexually assaulted an unconscious girl behind the dumpsters.
00:30Judge Persky thought that a harsher sentence would have a negative impact on his future.
00:35He's given the opportunity to prey on more victims.
00:39He will not be registered as a sex offender.
00:41His permanent record will never be tainted, but her future always will be.
00:46This is 2017 and Pakistani social media star Kandiyo Baloch was drugged and strangled in an honor killing by her
00:53brother
00:53for posting provocative selfies.
00:55He said
00:56I am happy that I have killed her.
00:58That
00:59that
00:59that
00:59that
00:59women have been born for their homes.
01:03In a society where autonomy and freedom of expression equals death, feminism is needed.
01:09Society dictates what men and women can do.
01:11What roles and jobs they can have.
01:13How we should act.
01:14How we should think.
01:14How we should dress.
01:15But why should we let intangible concepts limit our actions?
01:19Why should we let social construction control us?
01:21A stay at home dad.
01:23A working mom.
01:24A male beauty guru.
01:25A female commander.
01:26Why is this so out of the ordinary that we need to specify gender?
01:30We are told to put on a mask of makeup every morning to hide our faces from the public.
01:35Or else we look tired.
01:36Or we're not feminine.
01:37Or we're too ugly.
01:38We are shamed if we don't shave.
01:40Wats.
01:41Pluck.
01:41Thread.
01:41Cover.
01:42Straighten.
01:42And bleach ourselves.
01:44But guys are shamed if they do.
01:46This is 2017 and all men and women are still not created equal.
01:51A classmate once said that women who didn't have sex were prudes, but women who did were
01:55sluts.
01:56Okay, we get it.
01:58Women can't win.
02:00A classmate once said that if a woman's life was in danger from a pregnancy, an abortion
02:05would still be wrong.
02:06He said it was tough to choose whose life to save, but between a living woman and an
02:11unborn child is a choice that difficult to make.
02:14A classmate once said that women shouldn't be running for president because they are
02:17too emotional.
02:19We would make bad decisions because we are too emotional?
02:23Like when Brock Turner's hands were on Emily Doe's body.
02:26In Emily Doe's body.
02:27Because he couldn't control his urges?
02:30Like when Wasim Baloch's hands were around his sister's neck until her skin turned black
02:34and blue and the breath was choked out of her because he couldn't control his anger?
02:40And people think our emotions would hinder our decision making?
02:43Feminism has a negative connotation.
02:45But feminism isn't believing women are superior.
02:48Feminism is not just advocating for women.
02:51Feminism is equality for both genders.
02:53Feminism is not electing a president.
02:56Who calls women demeaning names.
02:58And who thinks it's okay to grab women by the you know where.
03:02This is not a movement for women only.
03:05This is a call to everyone to pick up your arms.
03:07Pick up your tampons, your footballs, your breast pumps, your hammers.
03:10Pick up your cosmetics, your hair gel, your pantyhose, your ties.
03:14These are weapons of mass destruction in the war against gender norms.
03:18This is 2017 and it's on us to end gender norms.
