Garbage's Shirley Manson reads a powerful feminist letter to her niece

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2 жыл бұрын

On February 26th, 2018, at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, Scottish musician and actor Shirley Manson, perhaps best known as the lead singer of the American rock band Garbage, read a letter to her niece.

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@gypsylee73 2 жыл бұрын

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” --Margaret Atwood

@tessiepinkman Жыл бұрын

WONDERFUL! I simply have no words. Powerful is another word that popped into my head just now. Wow. I love you Shirley, and have for a *long* time. This is yet another reason why.

@zoecunningham3019 9 ай бұрын

Bravo 👏 Many thanks for the letter written. Immensity of valuable truthful knowledge given.

@RikAlessi Жыл бұрын

Fucking Brilliant

@betsyhughes2208 2 жыл бұрын

Please remember feminism is about equality, it is about being denied equality in any way. The purpose of it is to bring awareness of the way we think, speak & treat anyone. The awareness to judge people on merit and ability. If you believe that language is not a big part of that then you truly must listen more carefully to how we speak to each other and how it can normalise the injustices of our world. Feminism is mindfulness and gives a platform from which other movements can begin to rise. The fact that we are still asking for equality and respect in 2022 gives you an example of how far we've come as a species. I have female friends who are millitant about so many causes & got into an argument with them about how feminist is a dirty word. This completely floored me & I pointed out how they were able to live the lives they do because of feminism. One of them, in fact my oldest & best friend has many revolutionary heroes and I asked her why were they all men, where were the women heroes. She's a very proud Manchestrian & can tell you how it's the birthplace of communism & socialism, loves Engels & Marx, I asked her why Emily Pankhurst wasn't one of the reasons she was proud of her city. This woman was born there, fought hard for equality and the right to vote & died for what she believed in, she had no answer. I then quietly pointed out perhaps it was because she was an early feminist. Words are powerful, very powerful and they influence the way we think. So the simple phrase "like a girl" does have effects. Think about what you say, don't just pretend to be enlightened.😶

@judiparrotte2436 2 ай бұрын

Right on✊🏼

@jeanhawken4482 2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@seancoyote Жыл бұрын

I mean, what the hell is with so many guys not clapping to that empowering speech? I seriously hope they don't have daughters.

@UATU. 2 жыл бұрын

❤️

@lowelllipe9125 10 ай бұрын

Be biologic, Shirley did!

@stephjovi Жыл бұрын

Basically she telling her niece not to be a stupid girl ❤️

@shresthachowdhury1770 2 жыл бұрын

Why is the reading not striking the mind? Perhaps a little slow reading would have helped?

@christopherpatzke3090 2 жыл бұрын

How remarkably vile this is. I stopped when she read the part about Mrs. What absolute crap! Mrs is an abbreviation for mistress which is the title of a female head of household.

@gypsylee73 2 жыл бұрын

A detail like that makes it "remarkably vile"?

@christopherpatzke3090 2 жыл бұрын

@@gypsylee73 deliberately fabricating lies to further a bizarre agenda is definitely vile. Yes.

@pigeoness22 Жыл бұрын

Your soul is vile. Remarkably vile. Women hate you and think you are disgusting.

@seancoyote Жыл бұрын

@@gypsylee73 he's a bit of a snowflake

@NickHunter Жыл бұрын

Regardless the point is that no man declares his marriage status with his title

@baudgaud 2 жыл бұрын

I love Shirley Manson. Been a fan of Garbage since I was a teenager. Right at the start, this letter shows that it is not "feminist" but "wacka-doo." I am embarrassed that I watched it at all. "You may be told that you run like a girl... as if doing anything 'like a girl' is a bad thing." Obviously it is fine if you are in fact a girl. If you are not a girl, then "doing something like a girl" is just a figure of speech meaning "to do that thing insincerely." When the video title suggests that Manson wrote this letter to her niece, not her nephew, I am just plain weirded out. I know that she is smarter than this.

@NyanyiC 2 жыл бұрын

I think it becomes a problem when someone tells a guy that they do something 'like a girl'

@baudgaud 2 жыл бұрын

@@NyanyiC A girl is a young woman, not a grown one. A girl is more reserved and cautious than a boy (which is a young man, not a grown one). Apart from the expectation that a grown man is heavier and physically stronger than a grown woman, a girl is lighter and physically weaker than a grown woman, so to tell a man that he "does something like a girl" is to let him know that he is not even trying and it is blatant that he is not even trying. Where is the problem?

@NyanyiC 2 жыл бұрын

@@baudgaud Why not say to a guy 'stop doing that like a boy'.its something that is never said. They always say 'like a girl' making it seem like there is something inherently wrong with the female gender!

@edb7121 2 жыл бұрын

When a boy tells a girl she runs like, or throws like a girl, it's meant as a put down or insult. Please understand it is in fact, not fine, to make such a comment to a girl. Shirley is telling her niece not to let comments such as these to stop her from running or throwing a ball or from doing anything her heart desires.

@baudgaud 2 жыл бұрын

@@edb7121 When I said "it is fine if you are a girl" I was pretty obviously making the statement that there is no problem with you if you are a girl and do things like a girl. Not sure why you decided to make an argument out of it.