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...AD: [laughs]. That I’m violent. People get wrong about me that I’m authoritarian. That’s what they get wrong...
...AD: It just breaks my heart. Nobody’s going to stop what’s happening in the Middle East until they can deal with the situation of women in both countries. What I said in Scapegoat was that in every country, women are the scapegoats of that country. I think that that’s true in Israel, and I think that that’s true in the area that the Palestinian Authority has control over. I think when we’re talking about the kind of violence that we’ve seen...
...AD: I think rape, battery, pornography and prostitution. And in other countries, female genital mutilation and acid burning of women. In Pakistan, for example, when men want revenge on other men, they will rape the women who are seen to belong to other men. And they will cut off the noses of those women. So all of those kinds of disfigurement and humiliation and sadism, all of those things are the issues that we have to deal with in the coming decade. We just have to. Because if we don’t, women have nothing...
...AD: Well, I don’t really think it’s our responsibility to mobilize young women. I think young women should learn to take care of themselves, and I think that they will. And some of them already do. I know lots of young feminists who are very strong and very militant. I admire them greatly. But I think at some point young women will possibly face losing what we gained. And once you face losing it, you have to make a decision about whether you’re ready to lose...
...AD: Well, I don’t know. I don’t know what you do when people don’t think that very much is wrong. I think you try to tell them that very much is wrong. And that’s where first person testimony of women has been so important, because the mainstream will say, oh, that doesn’t happen, and then a group of women will say, well, it happened to me. So it does happen. And I just think that that’s the main issue. The main issue...