Eve Ensler on the passivity of men

[burnsei sensei]

230. The surest way to make women capable of "fighting their own battles"

is to legally enable them to arm themselves and kill their attackers, whether child molestors assailants or rapists.
Enable a woman to avenge legally and yes, she'll fight her own battles.
The problem is that that's a sans-loy solution.
Women are competent enough to protect themselves at least fifteen to twenty years after they reach adulthood.
They, thankfully, become invisible through age.
What Ensler is probably referring to is the worldwide repression, the malicious wounding, neglect and wrongful death of women.
Women systematically raped in the Congo and India, subject to FGM in Africa and Asia, subject to fistulae by brutal sexual practices and disfigured in acid attacks in the Hindu Kush and even in the UK.
The problem is not what men do not do.
It's what they do with their silence.
They are complicit in the brutality that does exist.
They are further so in their refusal to publicly judge the conduct of other men.
Yes, men have truly DONE a great deal to make sure that the world, for women, stays exactly as it is.