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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.70,0:00:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do we think
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.60,0:00:07.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that stories by men are deemed\Nto be of universal importance,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.92,0:00:12.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stories by women are thought\Nto be merely about women?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.81,0:00:17.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My grandmother left school\Nwhen she was 12.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.58,0:00:19.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She had 14 children.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.36,0:00:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother left school when she was 15.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.27,0:00:23.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was a secretary.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.70,0:00:27.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I graduated from university\Nto become a theater director,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.48,0:00:31.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that progress is entirely to do\Nwith the fact that people I'll never meet
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.66,0:00:33.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fought for women to have rights,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.93,0:00:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get the vote, get education,\Nhave progress.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.10,0:00:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm determined to do the same,\Nand obviously you are, too.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.71,0:00:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.91,0:00:43.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.49,0:00:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I started a festival called WOW,\NWomen of the World, seven years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.22,0:00:50.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's now in 20 countries\Nacross five continents.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.25,0:00:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of those countries\Nis Somaliland in Africa.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.63,0:00:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I traveled there last year,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.87,0:01:01.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and part of the joy I had in going there\Nwas going to these caves.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.72,0:01:04.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Laas Geel caves.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.92,0:01:10.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, these caves contain some\Nof the oldest cave paintings in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.100,0:01:16.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These paintings are thought to be\Nround about 9,000 to 11,000 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.11,0:01:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Art:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.56,0:01:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what humanity has done\Never since it evolved.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.35,0:01:24.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's how we speak about ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.50,0:01:26.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we understand our identity,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.46,0:01:28.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we look at our surroundings,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.23,0:01:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who we find out about each other
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.32,0:01:33.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the meaning of our lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.56,0:01:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what art is for.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.97,0:01:37.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So look at this little picture.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.96,0:01:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's a little girl.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.93,0:01:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought it was a bit like me\Nwhen I was a little girl.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.20,0:01:47.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought, well, who painted\Nthis joyful, youthful figure?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.39,0:01:49.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I asked the curator of the caves.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.51,0:01:53.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "Tell me about the men\Nand women who painted these."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.06,0:01:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he looked at me\Nabsolutely askance, and he said,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.56,0:01:58.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Women didn't paint these pictures."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.24,0:02:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said, "Well,\Nit was 11,000 years ago."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.77,0:02:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "How do you know?"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.25,0:02:05.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.80,0:02:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said, "Women don't do these things.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.56,0:02:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Men made these marks. Women don't."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.55,0:02:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I wasn't really surprised,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.34,0:02:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that's an attitude\Nthat I've seen continuously
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.42,0:02:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all my life as a theater maker.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.55,0:02:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are told that divine knowledge\Ncomes down through the masculine,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.39,0:02:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether it be to the imam,\Nthe priest, the rabbi, the holy man.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.42,0:02:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Similarly, we're told that creative genius\Nresides in the masculine,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.74,0:02:44.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it is the masculine
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.51,0:02:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will be able to tell us\Nabout who we really are,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.60,0:02:50.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the masculine will tell\Nthe universal story
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.69,0:02:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on behalf of all of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.60,0:02:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whereas women artists will really\Njust talk about women's experiences,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.20,0:03:00.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women's issues\Nonly really relevant to women
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.60,0:03:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of passing interest to men --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.60,0:03:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and really only some men.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.91,0:03:08.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's that conviction,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.20,0:03:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that that we are taught,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.61,0:03:13.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I think colors so much\Nof whether we're prepared to believe
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.43,0:03:15.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that women's stories really matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.96,0:03:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And unless we're prepared to believe\Nthat women's stories really matter,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.53,0:03:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then women's rights don't really matter,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.54,0:03:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then change can't really come.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.88,0:03:31.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to tell you\Nabout two examples of stories
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.61,0:03:34.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are thought to be\Nof universal importance:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.57,0:03:37.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"E.T." and "Hamlet."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.35,0:03:40.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.49,0:03:43.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I took my two children\Nwhen they were little --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.78,0:03:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Caroline was eight and Robby was five --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.05,0:03:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see "E.T."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.64,0:03:52.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's a fantastic story\Nof this little alien
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.05,0:03:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who ends up in an American family
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.03,0:03:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a mum, two brothers and a sister,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.26,0:03:58.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he wants to go home.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.72,0:04:02.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only that, but some\Nreally bad scientists
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.36,0:04:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want to do some experiments on him,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.76,0:04:06.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're looking for him.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.99,0:04:09.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the children have a plot.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.07,0:04:11.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They decide they're going to take him\Nback to his spaceship
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.93,0:04:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as soon as they can,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.11,0:04:14.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they plop him in a bicycle basket,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.01,0:04:16.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and off they ride.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.37,0:04:20.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But unfortunately, the baddies\Nhave found out, and they're catching up
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.29,0:04:22.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they've got sirens\Nand they've got their guns,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.67,0:04:25.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've got the loud-hailers,\Nit's terribly frightening,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.37,0:04:27.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're closing up on the children,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.32,0:04:29.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the children are never\Ngoing to make it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.44,0:04:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then all of a sudden, magically,\Nthe bikes fly up in the air,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.55,0:04:35.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the clouds,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.12,0:04:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the moon,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.33,0:04:38.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're going to save "E.T."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.39,0:04:41.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I turn to see my children's faces,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.70,0:04:46.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Robby is enraptured,\Nhe's there with them, he's saving E.T.,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.19,0:04:48.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's a happy boy.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.07,0:04:51.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I turn to Caroline,\Nand she's crying her eyes out.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.87,0:04:53.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said, "What's the matter?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.44,0:04:58.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she said, "Why can't I save E.T.?\NWhy can't I come?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.42,0:05:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then all of a sudden I realized:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.80,0:05:03.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they weren't children;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.86,0:05:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were boys --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.76,0:05:07.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all boys.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.84,0:05:10.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Caroline, who had invested\Nso much in E.T.,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.84,0:05:13.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, she wasn't invited to save him,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.04,0:05:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she felt humiliated and spurned.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.41,0:05:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I wrote to Steven Spielberg --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.18,0:05:24.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter) (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.38,0:05:26.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said, "I don't know\Nif you understand
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.95,0:05:29.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the psychological importance\Nof what's happened,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.35,0:05:31.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are you prepared to pay\Nfor the therapy bills?"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.88,0:05:33.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.32,0:05:36.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Twenty years later, I haven't\Nhad a word back from him,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.31,0:05:37.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'm still hopeful.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.77,0:05:39.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.41,0:05:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I thought it was interesting,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.04,0:05:43.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because if you read reviews\Nof what he intended with E.T.,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.93,0:05:45.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he says very specifically,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.75,0:05:48.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I wanted the world to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.27,0:05:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we should love\Nand embrace difference."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.50,0:05:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But somehow he didn't include\Nthe idea of girls' difference
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.15,0:05:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this thinking.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.87,0:06:02.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He thought he was writing a story\Nabout all humanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.20,0:06:04.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Caroline thought he was marginalizing
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.30,0:06:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,half of humanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.76,0:06:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He thought he was writing a story\Nabout human goodness;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.86,0:06:13.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she thought he was writing\Na lad's heroic adventure.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.03,0:06:15.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is common.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.51,0:06:21.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Men feel they have been given the mantle\Nfor universal communication,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.66,0:06:23.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but of course, how could they be?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.63,0:06:27.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are writing from male experience\Nthrough male's eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.03,0:06:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to have a look at this ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.27,0:06:35.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to be prepared to go back\Nthrough all our books and our films,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.97,0:06:37.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all our favorite things,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.33,0:06:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say, "Actually, this is written\Nby a male artist --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.19,0:06:42.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not an artist.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.20,0:06:44.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to see\Nthat so many of these stories
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.63,0:06:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are written through a male perspective.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.79,0:06:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is fine,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.75,0:06:52.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then females need to have\N50 percent of the rights
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.27,0:06:54.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the stage, the film, the novel,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.85,0:06:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the place of creativity.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.56,0:06:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me talk about "Hamlet."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.38,0:07:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be or not to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.10,0:07:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the question.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.100,0:07:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's not my question.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.79,0:07:08.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My question is: Why was I taught\Nas a young woman
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.56,0:07:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this was the quintessential\Nexample of human dilemma
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.94,0:07:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and human experience?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.66,0:07:15.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a marvelous story,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.02,0:07:21.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but actually, it's about a young man\Nfearful that he won't be able to make it
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.38,0:07:24.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a powerful figure in a male world
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.07,0:07:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless he takes revenge\Nfor his father's murder.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.55,0:07:32.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He talks a great deal to us\Nabout suicide being an option,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.25,0:07:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the reality is that the person\Nwho actually commits suicide, Ophelia,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.95,0:07:39.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after she's been humiliated\Nand abused by him,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.47,0:07:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never gets a chance to talk\Nto the audience about her feelings.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.67,0:07:45.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then when he's finished with Ophelia,\Nhe turns on his mum,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.64,0:07:48.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because basically she has the audacity\Nto fall in love with his uncle
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.96,0:07:50.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and enjoy sex.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.19,0:07:52.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.26,0:07:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a great story,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.37,0:07:59.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it is a story about male conflict,\Nmale dilemma, male struggle.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.14,0:08:04.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I was told this was the story\Nof human beings,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.35,0:08:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,despite the fact that it only\Nhad two women in it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.42,0:08:09.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And unless I reeducate myself,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.00,0:08:11.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am always going to think
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.75,0:08:15.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that women's stories\Nmatter less than men's.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.17,0:08:17.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A woman could have written "Hamlet,"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.92,0:08:20.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but she would have written it differently,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.04,0:08:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it wouldn't have had\Nglobal recognition.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.67,0:08:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the writer Margaret Atwood says,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.76,0:08:27.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When a man writes about doing the dishes,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.27,0:08:28.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's realism.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.38,0:08:31.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When a woman writes about doing it,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.52,0:08:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's an unfortunate genetic disposition."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.06,0:08:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.30,0:08:39.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, this is not just something\Nthat belongs to then.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.15,0:08:40.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, when I was a young girl,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.98,0:08:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wanting desperately\Nto be a theater director,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.63,0:08:46.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is what my male lecturer said to me:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.49,0:08:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, there are three women\Ndirectors in Britain," he said, "Jude."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.58,0:08:54.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There's Joan Knight, who's a lesbian,\Nthere's Joan Littlewood, who's retired,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.72,0:08:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's Buzz Goodbody,\Nwho's just killed herself.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.52,0:08:59.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, which of those three\Nwould you like to be?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.80,0:09:00.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.88,0:09:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, leaving aside\Nthe disgusting slur on gay women,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.49,0:09:08.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fact is, he wanted to humiliate me.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.36,0:09:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He thought it was silly\Nthat I wanted to be a director.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.14,0:09:15.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I told my friend Marin Alsop,\Nthe conductor, and she said,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.13,0:09:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh yes, well, my music teacher\Nsaid exactly the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.91,0:09:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, 'Women don't conduct.'"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.70,0:09:23.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But all these years later,\Nwe've made our mark.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.45,0:09:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You think, "Well, it'll be different now."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.70,0:09:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm afraid it's not different now.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.22,0:09:31.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The current head\Nof the Paris Conservatoire
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.69,0:09:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,said recently, "It takes\Ngreat physical strength
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.14,0:09:36.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to conduct a symphony,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.65,0:09:38.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and women are too weak."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.12,0:09:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.60,0:09:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The artist George Baselitz said,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.56,0:09:43.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, the fact is women can't paint.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.87,0:09:45.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well -- they can't paint very well."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.19,0:09:48.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The writer V.S. Naipaul\Nsaid two years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.61,0:09:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I can read two paragraphs and know\Nimmediately if it's written by a woman,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.22,0:09:54.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I just stop reading,\Nbecause it's not worthy of me."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.95,0:09:56.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Audience: Whoa!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.39,0:09:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it goes on.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.100,0:10:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to find a way
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.01,0:10:05.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of stopping young girls and women
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.68,0:10:08.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feeling not only that\Ntheir story doesn't matter,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.54,0:10:11.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they're not allowed\Nto be the storyteller.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.66,0:10:16.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because once you feel\Nthat you can't stand in the central space
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.27,0:10:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and speak on behalf of the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.30,0:10:24.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will feel that you can offer\Nyour goods up to a small, select group.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.40,0:10:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will tend to do smaller work\Non smaller stages,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.94,0:10:29.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your economic power will be less,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.100,0:10:32.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your reach of audiences will be less,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.49,0:10:36.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your credit will be less as an artist.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.56,0:10:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we do finally give artists\Nthese incredible, prominent spaces
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.84,0:10:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.02,0:10:45.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they are our storytellers.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.79,0:10:48.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, why should it matter to you\Nif you're not an artist?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.94,0:10:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Supposing you're an accountant\Nor an entrepreneur or a medic
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.21,0:10:53.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a scientist:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.40,0:10:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Should you care about women artists?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.03,0:10:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Absolutely, you must,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.11,0:11:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because as you can see\Nfrom the cave paintings,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.54,0:11:03.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all civilizations,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.25,0:11:05.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of humanity
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.10,0:11:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have relied upon artists\Nto tell the human story,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.08,0:11:13.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if the human story\Nis finally told by men,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.38,0:11:15.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take my word for it,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.14,0:11:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will be about men.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.67,0:11:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's make a change.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.38,0:11:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's make a change\Nto all our institutions,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.60,0:11:23.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not just in the West.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.90,0:11:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't forget -- this message\Nof incapability of women
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.35,0:11:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to hold creative genius
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.40,0:11:35.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is being told to girls and women\Nin Nigeria, in China, in Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.33,0:11:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Indonesia.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.52,0:11:39.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All over the world, girls\Nand women are being told
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.25,0:11:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they can't finally hold the idea\Nof creative inspiration.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.13,0:11:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want to ask you:
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.80,0:11:48.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you believe that?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.54,0:11:52.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you believe that women\Ncan be a creative genius?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.17,0:11:58.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause and cheers)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.93,0:12:00.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well then, please go forward,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.62,0:12:02.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,support women artists,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.89,0:12:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,buy their work,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.39,0:12:06.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,insist that their voices are heard,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.68,0:12:09.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,find platforms on which\Ntheir voices will be made.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.68,0:12:12.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And remember this:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.49,0:12:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that in a sense, if we're going\Nto get past this moment
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.79,0:12:19.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a world where we know\Nthat we are unequal,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.67,0:12:22.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's artists who have to imagine\Na different world.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.89,0:12:26.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm calling on all artists,\Nwomen and men,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.52,0:12:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to imagine a gender-equal world.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.33,0:12:32.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's paint it. Let's draw it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.53,0:12:34.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's write about it. Let's film it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.35,0:12:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we could imagine it,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.26,0:12:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we would have the energy\Nand the stamina
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.77,0:12:41.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to work towards it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.80,0:12:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I see this little girl,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.88,0:12:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,11,000 years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.94,0:12:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to know that the little girl now
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.43,0:12:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can stand there and think\Nshe's entitled to her dreams,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.74,0:12:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she's entitled to her destiny
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.05,0:12:59.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she's entitled to speak\Non behalf of the whole world,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.28,0:13:01.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be recognized for it
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.12,0:13:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and applauded.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.80,0:13:03.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.01,0:13:08.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)