This movie is a wake-up call for women everywhere

This movie broke my heart, but it shines a much needed light on the secret worlds of abuse towards women. Just like child pornography and sex slave trade networks, there are entire networks made up of men from all walks of life that have made an online hobby out of dominating and exploiting women. I have seen everything from spy cam sites to sites where men post footage of women being beaten and raped. Recently, I met a woman who was tied up, raped and beaten for four straight days by her boyfriend of two years, and he videotaped the entire thing so that he could share it online. They get away with it, because not enough people are talking about it. The media has us too busy obsessing about debates, fighting for sport, wars and winning. Every time you turn on the news, it’s another useless debate about political ideologies, which are generally pointless and feeding into a war obsessed culture. Collectively, women have the power to make peaceful changes for humanity, and addressing the issues of violence against us is a great starting point. I say women not because I think all men are the problem, but because movements to liberate a group of oppressed people must be fought by the people who have been oppressed. All throughout history, women are the largest group of oppressed people and it continues to this day from sexist subtleties in the workplace to making it illegal to be raped. It’s time to move away from a culture where the threat of violence and the use of brute force trump peaceful compromise and intelligent reasoning. Look at the cultures around the world where women are the most oppressed and where their sexuality is the most demonized, and you’ll find the weakest and most unstable societies. They might have big bully governments and totalitarian regimes, but their people are still weak, because their mothers and their sisters have been oppressed.

"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes." -Viktor Frankl