"We are in a very real war in which the violence is almost exclusively on one side"
The Montreal Massacre – A Speech by Andrea Dworkin - Everyone should listen to this speech today. This is one of the greatest speeches Andrea ever gave.
https://rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/the-montreal-massacre-a-speech-by-andrea-dworkin
"What I heard and what I saw was the establishment was saying, yes we are willing to be sad, yes it is appropriate for you to cry, after all, girls do cry, but when there was an expression of anger, the establishment said, 'sit down bitch'." - Andrea Dworkin December 7, 1990
"We stand up with grief and terror and rage."
"When women are killed it's almost never called murder."
"This man who was not crazy who was political in his thinking and in his actions understood the meaning of those barriers coming down and he committed a political act so that we would retreat, so that new barriers could be built and so that women would not have the heart or the courage or the patience or the endurance to break those barriers down."
"We count the dead bodies. We count the numbers of rapes. We count the women who are being battered. We keep track of the children who are being raped by their fathers and when those numbers start to change in a way that is meaningful, we will then talk to you about whether or not we can measure progress."
"All of the accomplishments of feminism ... have been made ... with the most extraordinary patience and self restraint by which I mean we have not used guns. We have not used guns. They have been used against us and we have used words. We have marched saying words."
"Everything we achieve, we are punished for achieving.
Every statement we make we are punished for making.
Every act towards self determination that we make we are punished for making.
Every assertion of dignity is punished.
Either socially by the great media out there when they chose to recognize us it is usually through
ridicule or contempt or by the men who are around us."
"We are in a very real war in which the violence is almost exclusively on one side"
"The purpose of the punishment is very clear whether it's an act of forced sex, whether it's being beaten, whether it's being insulted with words, whether it's being harassed walking down the street, whether it's being sexually harassed in your place of work. It's very clear. Get inside. Shut your mouth. Do what I tell. Which is usually reducible to clean the house and open your legs."
"And many of us have said no. No. We say it in different ways we say it in different times. But we say no and we've said it loudly enough and collectively enough that is has begun to resonate in the public sphere. No. No we will not!"
"No, now there is an answer to our no. A semi automatic gun is one answer. There are also knives. There are bombs. It's not a pleasant
conversation that we're having."
"The press and the establishment politicians and the social pundants are using differences between this mass murder and the and the usual pattern of violence against women to confuse the issue. As if the differences are what matters and not what is the same. We know what is the same."
Mass Murder in Montreal: The Sexual Politics of Killing Women
"The feminist is the woman who is there not because she is his woman, but because she is the sister of the woman he is being a weapon against. Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her oppressor in a vacuum, alone. It exists to break down the privacy in which men rape, beat, and kill women. What I am saying is that every one of us has the responsibility to be the woman [that prick] wanted to murder. We need to live with that honor, that courage. We need to put fear aside. We need to endure. We need to create. We need to resist, and we need to stop dedicating the other 364 days of the year to forgetting everything we know. We need to remember every day, not only on December 6. We need to consecrate our lives to what we know and to our resistance to the male power used against us."
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Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2vMnpw1GVKVaA2RrBIxxQv
The Montreal Massacre - A Speech by Andrea Dworkin
https://soundcloud.com/womenreadwomen/the-montreal-massacre-a-speech-by-andrea-dworkin
Andrea Dworkin's Montreal Speech December 7, 199
http://andreadworkin.com/audio/montrealdworkin.mp3
Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-montreal-massacre-a-speech-by-andrea-dworkin/id1510825056?i=1000544292204
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