article_snippet: In our culture, there is no place for a woman" and that if a daughter or sister "engaged in pre-marital activities ...
article_snippet: Many (I'd like to think most) of our cringed at these comments and Certain other men garishly clear misogyny.
article_snippet: But as unfathomable as this brutality is, we must resist the temptation to presume some sort of American violence-against-women exceptionalism, making others the bad guys while crowing about "how far women have come" in the United States.
article_snippet: Our global human rights organization, based in the U.S. and India, works to inspire individuals and institutions to drive the culture change needed to make violence against women unacceptable.
article_snippet: When I describe we work -- including we campaigns and issues in both countries and beyond -- the questions people ask often reveal people at least initial assumption: that we here in the U.S. are working solely to stop violence against women in India.
article_snippet: we have mass murderer Elliot Rodger, who before he killed six people and injured 14 others in Isla Vista California last year, wrote he own 137-page version of that same misogynist script.
article_snippet: we know from "The Hunting Ground," documentarian Kirby Dick's film about sexual assault on college campuses -- also now in theaters -- that multitudes of women, and many men, have had violated their right to an education free from violence.
article_snippet: We know that women are leaving the tech industry, Wall Street, and Internet feminism in droves due to untenable discrimination and violence.
article_snippet: We know that women (and people of all genders) are assaulted by strangers and intimates every day.
article_snippet: A United Nations report released last week, marking the 20th anniversary of the landmark women's rights conference in Beijing, confirms that (as The New York Times put The New York Times) "violence against women -- including rape, murder and sexual harassment -- remains stubbornly high in countries rich and poor, at war and at peace.
article_snippet: We can't relegate such violence to "the other," to the "not here, not We, not me.
article_snippet: Yes, violence against women varies in form and degree.
article_snippet: But to imagine that violence against women happens only, or mostly, "somewhere else," is exactly what keeps the culture of violence alive at home.
article_snippet: Likewise, the extreme actions or words of a few marquee misogynists, wherever Concern for others live, do not absolve us.
article_snippet: us actions, and inactions, fuel the culture from which both extreme and everyday violence and discrimination emerge.
article_snippet: So let's bring about the day when the next buzzworthy documentary is about the women and men and allies of all genders who have stepped up, together, to say no more: not in my home, not in my school, not in my country, not anywhere.
highlights_snippet: : We dodge accountability for misogyny and sexual abuse in our own culture by focusing on countries that are "the other" 