How do you get young women to embrace the word feminism? “Send them to a dictionary,” Gloria Steinem said Tuesday at 92Y for MAKERS: The Women Who Make America. “No, seriously,” she continued, “because it has been demonized by Rush Limbaugh and company.” Watch the clip above.
Clive Davis is tonight. We’re livecasting here.
In the green room last night before MAKERS: The Women Who Make America event. Read the #92YMAKERS tag to catch up.
From L-R: Anu Bhagwati, Betsy West, Gloria Steinem, Amy Richards, Dyllan McGee, and Reshman Saujani.
See what’s coming up at 92Y Talks.
What issues do you find yourself getting fired up over these days? How long do we have? [Laughs] It depends on what’s going on at the moment, because there’s no shortage. Reporters will sometimes say to me, “Aren’t you interested in something besides the women’s movement?” And I’ll say, “Tell me something—find me one thing.” And they never can! Population is the single biggest element in environmental destruction, and the most important thing in humanizing population growth is reproductive freedom. Students on campuses will say, “Why are the same groups against lesbianism and contraception?” [Laughs] To those groups, the problem is the same: Any sexual expression that doesn’t end in conception is wrong. So the women’s movement and the gay and lesbian movement have always come together. And you cannot fight sexism without fighting racism—besides being wrong in a moral sense, it’s also impossible in a practical sense. Finally, if we look at conflicts in the world, we can see there’s a direct line between violence in the home and violence in the street or foreign policy. The cultures that teach inequity in the home are also the ones with the most violence in public life. All of these things are inextricably connected.
She returns to 92Y tonight. Always a great talk. You can still get tix!
Awesome. Thanks to Gloria Steinem for coming by BETTY tonight at 92YTribeca. She’ll be uptown at 92Y on February 28.
92Y Video: Eva Gabrielsson Talks With Gloria Steinem About Her Life With Stieg Larsson
“It’s very true, this article he wrote about honor killings, drawing the parallels between violence against women as being something that occurs in all societies with power dominance of a patriarchal society. And you shouldn’t try to explain it by having a specific violence against women or because of ethnicity or religion or anything like that. It’s the same thing. If we don’t realize that it’s the same thing, we won’t get anywhere.”Eva Gabrielsson talking with Gloria Steinem at 92Y on June 23, discussing the work of Eva’s late partner, Steig Larsson.
