Long before #MeToo, these campaigns led by women shed light on the global sexual assault epidemic.
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00:00We're done. We're tired. Rape culture needs to end.
00:02It really is not about Valentine's Day.
01:00In 2016, we launched Mi Primer Acoso en Español
01:03so that women could start telling their first experiences of rape.
01:07One of the very strong things that we realized
01:09is that it starts when we are six years old.
01:11And this was important for two reasons.
01:14First, because it allowed all women to realize
01:16that rape is ubiquitous and that it's happening to all of us,
01:20that there is not a single woman in Latin America
01:22who has not lived, at least once in her life, a rape situation.
01:26And the second very important thing that this conversation showed us
01:29is that if rape starts at six years old,
01:32it's not that they rape you because you're very pretty or because you're very sexy,
01:36but that they rape us because we're close to them.
01:38And that they don't rape us for a taste,
01:40because we're very attractive,
01:42but that they rape us because they can.
01:48What makes the hashtag EndRapeCulture movement
01:51different from the MeToo campaign
01:53was that MeToo essentially was women raising their hands to say,
01:57hey, this has also happened to me.
01:59EndRapeCulture, in my humble opinion,
02:03was fairly ahead of its time in that
02:05we weren't questioning that sexual violence is pervasive.
02:09Like, there's not a single person that doesn't know somebody
02:13that has been sexually violated in one way, shape, or form.
02:16So EndRapeCulture wasn't saying, hey, this is me, MeToo.
02:20EndRapeCulture was saying, all of it needs to stop.
02:22We need to stop this.
02:23It was a group of young women, women with an X,
02:26saying, women with an X essentially,
02:28including everyone across the spectrum,
02:31the entire LGBTQI plus community,
02:35essentially saying that this needs to stop.
02:56I sent in a red pair of panties.
03:26It really is not about Valentine's Day,
03:42and it's not about going to pubs,
03:44and it's not about pink underwear.
03:45It is about saying that there is a nonviolent way of protesting
03:49and that perhaps the Sriram Sena could also adopt
03:52a nonviolent way of protesting.
03:54If they don't like some things which they think are against Indian culture,
03:59whatever it is,
04:00they could find ways of addressing those issues
04:03without beating up women.