Actually,
it’s the first time that I’ve heard of that One Billion Rising thing and it’s
really good to know that there is a movement like this around the world that
push women around the world to fight for their rights and to fight violence
against them. There’s really a huge number of women who were violated, raped or
abused and didn’t do anything about it because they’re scared or they didn’t
know that there’s a support group like the One Billion Rising which can
actually help them. And this does not only happen in our country but it happens
in every country around the world.
I like how the lecture started with
the topic of love. The first speaker presented us with images or pictures of
love and the art. Those images reflects the different ways of how love can be
perceived and the different kinds of love, because love can be towards a
person, thing, place or anything intangible. But what I liked most about her
speech was when she repeatedly said. “Is it our desire for love or is it about
social acceptability?” It really makes sense for me, because it made me realize
something, that yes, some people really love just because they want to be
accepted by the society and not because it’s how they feel towards something.
Then they discussed about what they
call Red Love and Queer Love. It’s really interesting to know how people love
in different ways, the conventional way and the unconventional way of loving.
But for me, in any way, as long as you really feel love and you are loved the
way you want, then it doesn’t matter. We should just learn how to love one
another, appreciate the things that we have and learn how to love them.
Another thing was the conceptual
proposal of loving soft and struggling hard. These two things works side by
side, because whatever way you want to love something or someone there are
struggles, there are obstacles ahead of you and no matter how hard it is, you
should overcome those in the name of love.
But I think, what they want to point
out is that love is the best way to stop violence against anyone, not just
among women but for anyone. Everyone should learn how to love one another in
any way possible just to avoid violence towards one another.
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