【018】性暴力的救赎之路|Our story of rape and reconciliation

Speaker：Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger

Key words：性 暴力

Abstract：20年前,他们是一对恋人,当一切看似美好、令人艳羡时，在一次学校舞会后，他竟然强奸了她... 20年后，他们来到TED演讲台坦诚面对过去，讲述这20年来彼此走过的一段漫长的救赎之路。

Content：

• A majority of sexual violence against women and men is perpetrated by men. And yet their voices are sorely underrepresented in this discussion.
• Given the nature of our story, I know the words that inevitably accompany it — victim, rapist — and labels are a way to organize concepts, but they can also be dehumanizing in their connotations. Once someone's been deemed a victim, it's that much easier to file them away as someone damaged, dishonored, less than. And likewise, once someone has been branded a rapist, it's that much easier to call him a monster —inhuman. But how will we understand what it is in human societies that produces violence if we refuse to recognize the humanity of those who commit it? And how

Link：TED|Open163