By reading all the misogynists comments below, she's totally right. We need to educate our children, the new generations, to not tolerate any kind of disrespect, violence or abuse against women. This is all a matter of the patriarchal education we have all received, but it's in our hands to change it. Feminism is more necessary than ever!
I love Isabel Allende. I started reading spanish literature after having read La Casa de los espiritus. And I can say with all certainty that I have not read a more beautiful, impressive and unforgetable novel. I highly recommend it. Isabel Allende...una de las mejores escritoras de America Latina y del mundo entero. I wish I could meet her one day.
standing ovations aren't given out. they are inspired by the listener. Seems her speech is as powerful as any other presentation. This is due to her articulation providing the mental visuals.
I pray that these injustices to women and children are ended. In the meantime I will continue to treat my wife and children with love, dignity and respect.
I don't understand all the hate-filled comments. There is nothing hateful in her speech. She speaks the truth of the realities that exist for women who are less fortunate than others. Why is a speech in favor of these women a bad thing? She speaks the truth. Thank you Isabel - you're a true heroine!!!!
What I'm saying is that most of the time, the men are not the ones "displaced" - which means those who flee a war, etc.... because the men are the ones who are FIGHTING in the war which the "displaced" persons fled.
Strenghth of a different nature arose when tying the umbilical cord with hair or watering a tree drop by drop. This passion and strength is born of survival and there are very few women who have the opportunity to access this youtube site that can speak from that perspective.
Even when i like her a lot as a writter, beside the fact that she is a woman, comes from latinamerica and is a feminist, (I'm a latinamerican woman, feminist and love literature), I have to say, the thing isn't about if men rul the world, the thing is ONLY men rul the word, this isn't about who will do things better, this is about equal rights, this is about your voice making a difference when you speak up as a woman. let's put aside all the hate and prejugements, they won't take us a anywhere
In so many fundamental ways, women have only recently been accorded 'human being' status in some parts of the world. It's not about blaming men, it is about understanding the nature of power and control, and how a society that respects women is better for all concerned.
I don't see how you can perceive her marvellous speech like that...I really don't. She opens up for males to participate in a strife for an equal society..in terms of condition. I think this is an excellent video.
I haven't seen where the blurbs on her books mention her wonderful whimsical humor. I have laughed aloud more often reading her books than any I can recall, save maybe Truman Capote or Jorge Amado. It's not like she's trying to be funny; it's her portraying herself, the narrator, as over-the-top breathless about what's going on in the story. She is The Master of the whopper.
If you've read her book House of the Spirits, you should be familiar with the protest songs about the Fox and the Hen. I actually wrote what I think one of those songs would sound like for an English project a couple years back. You should give it a listen and see what you think! Great book
SHE WAS JOKING! A lot of men got all crazy calling her the opposite of a misogynist, but you have to realize she's reading an excerpt from her book, The Sum of Our Days, which is very tongue in cheek! She's not really actually short enough to fit in between Raquel Welch's legs, either, genius! If you read anything about her life, or her non-fiction books, you'd know she definitely adores men. She's Latin dude, she doesn't want men w/manginas, just not macho a-holes.
What is all of that have to do with what she said. She can adore men all she want making sexist jokes toward men also considered sexists. Have you seen how females got all crazy when a man making a sexists joke?
@sashaleem YES I was wrong, her father and Salvador were 1st cousins, that make her a "1st cousin once removed" from Salvador. Salvador also had a daughter Isabel, who would be this Isabel's 2nd cousin.
Bravo, we need interesting characters. We need rebels and misfits. We don't need killers. We need good people willing to live lives of passion. We don't need people willing to die for a cause, but people willing to live for one.
I do want her in Chile, and judging by her books success in Chile, lots of people think the same. Besides, the ones who governs the country now are as sold as her (capitalism protected by socialist), which tell you the political views of THE MAJORITY. She is, first of all, a writer, not a politician, she lives out the money produced by the books, it is her choice, as any other human being. Respect that. As a you respect a nurse or a janitor doing and living just out their jobs.
Reason is a tool. What do we choose to use it on? Passion and reason are orthogonal to each other. Men run the world, and things DO improve every year... so long as you remember that one of the ways in which things improve is in gender equity. What she says about the correlation between gender inequity and other social ills. She may hyperbolize a little, but the amount is insignificant.
First off, thanks for the reply, and your sources. I fail to see why comparing full-time working men to full-time working women is unfair or any reason to expect biased results. I also don't see how women choosing lower paying positions do anything to explain why women still earn 20-30% less than men working THE SAME positions. That said, I do hope you are right. If sexual discrimination really is a thing of the past, that's certainly something to celebrate.
I'm telling you to look up a specific article (with reference to a specific section) because youtube doesn't allow links in the comment section. -.- You still don't address my questions of domestic work, and what I cited are still government-reviewed stats, which you are free to refute if you could.
Enlightening, passionate and valuable talk, among other wonderful things .. can be so much more powerful without disrespecting a gender. What is the difference which gender you disrespect - it still damages the message.
Allow me to recomment a very interesting book that is highly relevant here: The Red Queen - Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley. While I can certainly not say Ridley's convictions are necessarily correct, I can attest the book is entertaining and fascinating and provides a lot of food for thought. Without giving anything away, I can say Mr. Ridley believes sexual selection has played a crucial role in the evolution of our nature, and not for no reason.
I'm just saying that every one of us should be (should feel) responsible for our own lives, and try to do something about it. I'm not suggesting we should all go around blaming everybody else, that wouldn't help at all. Furthermore, couldn't passion arise in everyday situation? Do you really need extreme conditions for it to develop? Also, if you reply, please try to use shorter sentences, i'm not a native speaker and it took me almost 10 minutes to understand what you were trying to say :)
I'm not saying that men do not undertake jobs that are risky (ie. resource extraction). What I am saying is that upper-class men have more institutional power, which is something even the Warren Farrell recognizes. With institutional power comes the ability to make policy, decisions, and create a cultural discourse. The author you cite considers domestic women's work "voluntary" and consequently insignificant, so I'm not too tempted to engage with that kind of bigotry.
Fortunately for everyone, Political Correctness is self-contradictory, and eventually gives way to truth. As more awareness is spread about the realities of intimate partner violence in lesbian couples, and in gay couples, people will see that there is much more to the picture than "wife beating" and that it is really not a gender issue, or one of good vs evil. The way i see it, its an issue of TRUST, self-control, and the decision to tolerate ANY violence in an intimate relationship.
that would be a little hard to accomplish, but hey! it's our world, we're responsible for it. Nevertheless changes are beginning to happen, especially, as always, within the young generation. No time to criticize the mistakes of the past now. We've got to view the world in a positive way and act accordingly.
And what I'm saying is that the distribution is so perfectly equal between the male and female gender that it is a distribution of 49.48% and 50.52%. In other words, neither men nor women are displaced significantly more than the other gender. We are talking about an imbalance of ~20.000 people on a scale of 8 million.
I think you misunderstand. She is saying that if given the equal opportunity, women would be able to help lead in technology, science, etc. and that because there isn't this opportunity, so many things which cannot be discovered will not be because there isn't an opportunity for women to do such things.
I believe the stats Isabel Allende describes on how women are abused and subjugated, however I also know of situations where men are abused and subjugated unfairly by women with a degree of political power and enforcement. Or children abused by women. I support what Allende stands for, I'm just saying ... avoid broad blanket prejudices.
"Los escritores chilenos, con alguna excepción, no quieren tener ningún problema. Sólo quieren que se les quiera, que de ser posible un día se vean instalados en una agregaduría cultural, que hablen bien de ellos. Escalar, escalar siempre, buscar y conseguir el éxito, aunque el éxito sea tan pequeño como Chile mismo. En esta feria de vanidades, en este baile de salón entre los siúticos y los cuicos, brilla todo, menos la literatura". - Roberto Bolaño
I see that still we have a lot of macho man in the present century ( XXI ) and they feel very bad when listen the truth that Isabel tell us . I`m proud be a chilean like you Isabel Allende.
I think I was saying the same thing, in a more destructive way :) Yeah a lot of things are human constructs, and I think it would be a good thing from time to time to remember that. I daily come across people who tell me "i have no right to this and that", and I just laugh. Obviously I have the "right" to do everything I can. It doesn't mean I would be stupid to do things that are not in my interest though :)
Well, just between the two of us, definitely I see more advantages being a man, at least in my workplace. We get around 30%+ than female workers doing the exact same job and only men are allowed to do extra-hours (a very important factor to us.)
Even in our privileged society feminism is not dated. All over the USA people are trying to take away women's rights and make them subservient. We can't give up, even if just to hold on to what we have.
@vanlex100 I saw an interview where the host said she's from Chile. But it doesn't really matter. No big deal. I think she even mentioned on her speech that she's from Chile.... Anyway, I like her work. NP
Excellent speech! What she's trying to say is that in most of the world men don't respect women. it's not about "we hate men"... it's about, if women were more respected by men in any country of this goddamn world, there will be no more prostitution, sexual or physical abuses against women, the same opportunities in life, justice, etc. So, you people are getting all this wrong... and it's sad that you can't see the point in all this great speech... that is so sad.
My point is with the misleading statistics often used by "raging feminist" rhetoric. Mentioning 80% sounds like a very unbalanced ratio of 1:4, so it's a very powerful statistic to throw around. But is not exactly honest and straightforward because it is sampling two different sized pools. If you have 30 red balls and 10 green ones, do you expect a 50% chance at either when picking at random? No. You expect a 75% or 25% chance.
What do you want then? What do you have to offer then, and what do you want to receive in exchange. Ok, I agree that sometimes, women can be more "powerful" than men. Now what? We just leave things as they are, or what? Because if you don't actually want anything, then this conversation is pointless. So give me a suggestion, what to do or how to think, to make the world a better place. Respect women? I already do that. Respect myself? checked; What else?
When I send this video to feminists who said "Feminists don't hate men" or "Not all feminists are like that" they actually agreed with what she said and told me I'm a women hater. lol
If you look at how abusers are profiled, they are said to be suprizingly charming and witty, they are said to be in denail about thier abuse, they are said to blame thier partner (the innocent victim) - this profile is entirely based circular reasoning and anecdotal evidence, and that much should be obvious. They are also said to be particularly selfish, stubborn, fake, and to lack a real soul/conscience, just as any person would seem through the eyes of thier enemy. What about the other story?
Great speech, it touched me and I'm sure touched many people. By listening to her I'm proud to be a chilean
A Woman after my own Heart!!! Very Inspirational!!! Love her Message!!!
By reading all the misogynists comments below, she's totally right. We need to educate our children, the new generations, to not tolerate any kind of disrespect, violence or abuse against women. This is all a matter of the patriarchal education we have all received, but it's in our hands to change it. Feminism is more necessary than ever!
unquestionably!!, the best speech ever.
I think she is a great speaker. What a powerful speech.
I love Isabel Allende. I started reading spanish literature after having read La Casa de los espiritus. And I can say with all certainty that I have not read a more beautiful, impressive and unforgetable novel. I highly recommend it.
Isabel Allende...una de las mejores escritoras de America Latina y del mundo entero.
I wish I could meet her one day.
standing ovations aren't given out. they are inspired by the listener. Seems her speech is as powerful as any other presentation. This is due to her articulation providing the mental visuals.
I pray that these injustices to women and children are ended. In the meantime I will continue to treat my wife and children with love, dignity and respect.
I don't understand all the hate-filled comments. There is nothing hateful in her speech. She speaks the truth of the realities that exist for women who are less fortunate than others. Why is a speech in favor of these women a bad thing? She speaks the truth. Thank you Isabel - you're a true heroine!!!!
I wish all old women die off and without women we wouldn't have all these problem exist in this world. Sound heroine? No I think it would be sexist
What are the mains point she is talking about
"So nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me" lol ahahah. A breathtaking speech, how can you do not love this woman! :D
Que vontade me deu de mudar o mundo AGORA! Nunca li os livros desta escritora, mas depois deste discurso preciso urgentemente ler um deles.
Deeply touching speech, my respect to this woman.
She and her stories are compelling and impressive!
love her!!!!! And so proud! She makes me to remember how much brave we women can be
i just love her. i love her absolutely and without question. she is a formidable talent and enlightened soul.
Good, that's why I love Isabel Allende. She really inspired me
Greatest writer!!! love her!
What I'm saying is that most of the time, the men are not the ones "displaced" - which means those who flee a war, etc.... because the men are the ones who are FIGHTING in the war which the "displaced" persons fled.
Strenghth of a different nature arose when tying the umbilical cord with hair or watering a tree drop by drop. This passion and strength is born of survival and there are very few women who have the opportunity to access this youtube site that can speak from that perspective.
I love you so much, Isabel!!!
Even when i like her a lot as a writter, beside the fact that she is a woman, comes from latinamerica and is a feminist, (I'm a latinamerican woman, feminist and love literature), I have to say, the thing isn't about if men rul the world, the thing is ONLY men rul the word, this isn't about who will do things better, this is about equal rights, this is about your voice making a difference when you speak up as a woman. let's put aside all the hate and prejugements, they won't take us a anywhere
In so many fundamental ways, women have only recently been accorded 'human being' status in some parts of the world. It's not about blaming men, it is about understanding the nature of power and control, and how a society that respects women is better for all concerned.
I don't see how you can perceive her marvellous speech like that...I really don't. She opens up for males to participate in a strife for an equal society..in terms of condition. I think this is an excellent video.
Really inspiring. Major influence in my artwork.
Thanks so much.
you make me feel strong,our time is almost here
Beautiful speech.. beautiful woman!
@gummybrain I already did..I don't care whom she is but what she said has a lot of truth in it.
I haven't seen where the blurbs on her books mention her wonderful whimsical humor. I have laughed aloud more often reading her books than any I can recall, save maybe Truman Capote or Jorge Amado. It's not like she's trying to be funny; it's her portraying herself, the narrator, as over-the-top breathless about what's going on in the story. She is The Master of the whopper.
It astounds me how most of the commenters have a limited view of what feminism is.
Unicamente sensacionalmente maravillosa humanidad...ole...ole...ole..Señora Isabel
That was so beautiful.
If you've read her book House of the Spirits, you should be familiar with the protest songs about the Fox and the Hen. I actually wrote what I think one of those songs would sound like for an English project a couple years back. You should give it a listen and see what you think! Great book
jaja i am reading her book "La Suma de Los Dias"
and i had just read yesterday the part of her 4 minutes of fame.
hillarious!!
wow,she is sure electrifying.
hey i remember you!!amazing videos you put.kudos
SHE WAS JOKING! A lot of men got all crazy calling her the opposite of a misogynist, but you have to realize she's reading an excerpt from her book, The Sum of Our Days, which is very tongue in cheek! She's not really actually short enough to fit in between Raquel Welch's legs, either, genius! If you read anything about her life, or her non-fiction books, you'd know she definitely adores men. She's Latin dude, she doesn't want men w/manginas, just not macho a-holes.
What is all of that have to do with what she said. She can adore men all she want making sexist jokes toward men also considered sexists. Have you seen how females got all crazy when a man making a sexists joke?
One of the best!
I love her.
Outstanding!
@sashaleem YES I was wrong, her father and Salvador were 1st cousins, that make her a "1st cousin once removed" from Salvador. Salvador also had a daughter Isabel, who would be this Isabel's 2nd cousin.
very interesting speech
respect allende
Great writer!! viva Chile!!
I want to know why this woman got a standing ovation after her final statement
wow... no words...
love her
I agree, it is true.
Bravo, we need interesting characters. We need rebels and misfits. We don't need killers. We need good people willing to live lives of passion. We don't need people willing to die for a cause, but people willing to live for one.
Bravooooo!
the house of spirits was a good book
amazing.
I do want her in Chile, and judging by her books success in Chile, lots of people think the same. Besides, the ones who governs the country now are as sold as her (capitalism protected by socialist), which tell you the political views of THE MAJORITY.
She is, first of all, a writer, not a politician, she lives out the money produced by the books, it is her choice, as any other human being. Respect that. As a you respect a nurse or a janitor doing and living just out their jobs.
Meraviglioso❤️
Just one simple word... passion
this is amazing!!!! and interesting!!!
It's really great....
i just don't get the whole fear of women thing. i'm a man and i LOVE strong women.
Reason is a tool. What do we choose to use it on? Passion and reason are orthogonal to each other.
Men run the world, and things DO improve every year... so long as you remember that one of the ways in which things improve is in gender equity. What she says about the correlation between gender inequity and other social ills. She may hyperbolize a little, but the amount is insignificant.
I like it!
First off, thanks for the reply, and your sources.
I fail to see why comparing full-time working men to full-time working women is unfair or any reason to expect biased results. I also don't see how women choosing lower paying positions do anything to explain why women still earn 20-30% less than men working THE SAME positions.
That said, I do hope you are right. If sexual discrimination really is a thing of the past, that's certainly something to celebrate.
Thank You, Madame.
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It's sad that in this day and age, one can give a sexist speech based on ignorance, hate, lies and discrimination and be applauded at the end.
I'm telling you to look up a specific article (with reference to a specific section) because youtube doesn't allow links in the comment section. -.-
You still don't address my questions of domestic work, and what I cited are still government-reviewed stats, which you are free to refute if you could.
source please? not to be antagonistic, but genuinely interested.
Enlightening, passionate and valuable talk, among other wonderful things .. can be so much more powerful without disrespecting a gender.
What is the difference which gender you disrespect - it still damages the message.
Allow me to recomment a very interesting book that is highly relevant here: The Red Queen - Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley. While I can certainly not say Ridley's convictions are necessarily correct, I can attest the book is entertaining and fascinating and provides a lot of food for thought. Without giving anything away, I can say Mr. Ridley believes sexual selection has played a crucial role in the evolution of our nature, and not for no reason.
Excelente
I'm just saying that every one of us should be (should feel) responsible for our own lives, and try to do something about it. I'm not suggesting we should all go around blaming everybody else, that wouldn't help at all.
Furthermore, couldn't passion arise in everyday situation? Do you really need extreme conditions for it to develop?
Also, if you reply, please try to use shorter sentences, i'm not a native speaker and it took me almost 10 minutes to understand what you were trying to say :)
I mention Allende in The History Song.
I'm not saying that men do not undertake jobs that are risky (ie. resource extraction). What I am saying is that upper-class men have more institutional power, which is something even the Warren Farrell recognizes. With institutional power comes the ability to make policy, decisions, and create a cultural discourse. The author you cite considers domestic women's work "voluntary" and consequently insignificant, so I'm not too tempted to engage with that kind of bigotry.
Fortunately for everyone, Political Correctness is self-contradictory, and eventually gives way to truth. As more awareness is spread about the realities of intimate partner violence in lesbian couples, and in gay couples, people will see that there is much more to the picture than "wife beating" and that it is really not a gender issue, or one of good vs evil. The way i see it, its an issue of TRUST, self-control, and the decision to tolerate ANY violence in an intimate relationship.
I read "Dos Palabras" :]
that would be a little hard to accomplish, but hey! it's our world, we're responsible for it.
Nevertheless changes are beginning to happen, especially, as always, within the young generation. No time to criticize the mistakes of the past now. We've got to view the world in a positive way and act accordingly.
And what I'm saying is that the distribution is so perfectly equal between the male and female gender that it is a distribution of 49.48% and 50.52%. In other words, neither men nor women are displaced significantly more than the other gender. We are talking about an imbalance of ~20.000 people on a scale of 8 million.
They don't know what it is and they go by the what the media shows them.
I think you misunderstand. She is saying that if given the equal opportunity, women would be able to help lead in technology, science, etc. and that because there isn't this opportunity, so many things which cannot be discovered will not be because there isn't an opportunity for women to do such things.
I believe the stats Isabel Allende describes on how women are abused and subjugated, however I also know of situations where men are abused and subjugated unfairly by women with a degree of political power and enforcement. Or children abused by women.
I support what Allende stands for, I'm just saying ... avoid broad blanket prejudices.
Very nice talk by Isabel Allende :)
"Los escritores chilenos, con alguna excepción, no quieren tener ningún problema. Sólo quieren que se les quiera, que de ser posible un día se vean instalados en una agregaduría cultural, que hablen bien de ellos. Escalar, escalar siempre, buscar y conseguir el éxito, aunque el éxito sea tan pequeño como Chile mismo. En esta feria de vanidades, en este baile de salón entre los siúticos y los cuicos, brilla todo, menos la literatura". - Roberto Bolaño
I see that still we have a lot of macho man in the present century ( XXI ) and they feel very bad when listen the truth that Isabel tell us . I`m proud be a chilean like you Isabel Allende.
So you actually agree with her that men are the cause of the problem that happen to this world ?
Isabel Allende thus being first cousin, once removed of Salvador Allende, President of Chile.
i wanna a translaton, i speak spanish,i dont know much of english!!! thanks!
@scrabbleking1965 She is not the daughter of Salvador Allende, her that was Allende's cousin.
I think I was saying the same thing, in a more destructive way :)
Yeah a lot of things are human constructs, and I think it would be a good thing from time to time to remember that. I daily come across people who tell me "i have no right to this and that", and I just laugh. Obviously I have the "right" to do everything I can. It doesn't mean I would be stupid to do things that are not in my interest though :)
You might be right. Please help, tell us what feminism really is and what most commenters think it is.
Well, just between the two of us, definitely I see more advantages being a man, at least in my workplace. We get around 30%+ than female workers doing the exact same job and only men are allowed to do extra-hours (a very important factor to us.)
@lilsmiley16840 ella nacio en Lima , Peru..........she born in LiMA ,PERU you can see in wikipedia
nacida en PERU!
Quando crescer quero ser do tamanho de Isabel.😊
Argh. Love YT's utter lack of editing features... That was of course supposed to read
Allow me to recommenD a ...
Even in our privileged society feminism is not dated. All over the USA people are trying to take away women's rights and make them subservient. We can't give up, even if just to hold on to what we have.
The opposite of a misogynist is a misandrist, contrary to popular belief the word does exist.
@vanlex100 I saw an interview where the host said she's from Chile. But it doesn't really matter. No big deal. I think she even mentioned on her speech that she's from Chile.... Anyway, I like her work. NP
Excellent speech! What she's trying to say is that in most of the world men don't respect women. it's not about "we hate men"... it's about, if women were more respected by men in any country of this goddamn world, there will be no more prostitution, sexual or physical abuses against women, the same opportunities in life, justice, etc.
So, you people are getting all this wrong... and it's sad that you can't see the point in all this great speech... that is so sad.
My point is with the misleading statistics often used by "raging feminist" rhetoric. Mentioning 80% sounds like a very unbalanced ratio of 1:4, so it's a very powerful statistic to throw around. But is not exactly honest and straightforward because it is sampling two different sized pools. If you have 30 red balls and 10 green ones, do you expect a 50% chance at either when picking at random? No. You expect a 75% or 25% chance.
rare woman.
So? What's your point?
What do you want then?
What do you have to offer then, and what do you want to receive in exchange.
Ok, I agree that sometimes, women can be more "powerful" than men. Now what? We just leave things as they are, or what? Because if you don't actually want anything, then this conversation is pointless.
So give me a suggestion, what to do or how to think, to make the world a better place.
Respect women? I already do that. Respect myself? checked; What else?
When I send this video to feminists who said "Feminists don't hate men" or "Not all feminists are like that" they actually agreed with what she said and told me I'm a women hater. lol
😆
If you look at how abusers are profiled, they are said to be suprizingly charming and witty, they are said to be in denail about thier abuse, they are said to blame thier partner (the innocent victim) - this profile is entirely based circular reasoning and anecdotal evidence, and that much should be obvious.
They are also said to be particularly selfish, stubborn, fake, and to lack a real soul/conscience, just as any person would seem through the eyes of thier enemy. What about the other story?