Prey Posture

 

“Girls get these messages 

about What GirlWorld Is, 

clearly from The Culture, right, I mean of course

they're you know reading magazines and

watching TV and yes there are images about girls 

that are really a problem absolutely —

— But what I think 

the missing piece is, is that 

girls take that information, those messages and 

they take those rules, 

and they are The Enforcers 

on a day-to-day basis and 

what girls do is that sometimes 

they don't know exactly 

what The Rules are, right?

I mean, in the movie,

there are scenes where 

you'll see girls say, 

“Well, These are The Rules, right?

“You cannot wear 

this on Friday” 

and “You can't this 

on Monday”

“…and you can only 

bring your hair in 

a ponytail once a week —

So, I guess you picked today…

But for the most part,

 Girls don't really know 

what The Rules are, 

until they break them.

And when they break them,

they are very clear about 

what those Rules are —

From that, I really decided to go 

to the root causes of why girls 

were getting themselves vulnerable 

to really scary situations —

Y’know — WHY was it so important to 

have a boyfriend, no matter 

how he treated you…?

WHY was it so important to 

put up with Your Friends, 

no matter how badly 

they treated you — 

Was there a connection 

between the two…? 

WHY is it so important —

Why do girls do this thing 

where they pretend that 

they're really fat or 

they're really stupid or 

they're not Good at things, 

when they know 

that they are — 

Why do girls on sort 

of the opposite end,

sort of front that they've 

got it all together and 

they've got their game on,

but in fact, they really 

don't think that at all —

What is that about? 

So I started an organisation that 

would really address all 

of those issues, and 

why it would make girls 

vulnerable to 

violence, actually —

And I also did it for boys as well,

and so that has metamorphosised, it's become The Empower Program.”