A wonderful movie (true story) A Man Called Peter, the true story of the life of Christian Minister Peter Marshall.
The actress that plays Catherine Marshall (Jean Peter`s) gives a wonderful talk to a group of young obnoxious teenagers.
She gave a wonderful speech that should be played in every classroom etc, it would change the world.
In it she says that in order for women to be equal with men, they needed to take a step down.
It just occurred to me that the speech/talk is probably available, sure enough it was
Here it is
Here is one of my favorite scenes from the movie.
(Catherine Woods gets up to speak at a rowdy youth rally and is met by claps and cheers from the boys .)
If thats because Im a girl, thank you boys.
And now, if youll let me, Id like to talk as a girl, to the girls here this afternoon. I know if you boys will listen, theyll listen too. And Im just as sure that the reason theyve been just as rude and silly as youve been, is because they had the mistaken idea that you wanted them to be.
Id never thought much about being a girl until two years ago, when I learned from a man what a wonderful thing it is to be a woman. Until that Sunday morning, I considered myself lucky to be living in the 19th century. The century of progress and emancipation. The century when, supposedly, we women came into our own. But Id forgotten that the emancipation of woman really began with Christianity. When a girl, a very young girl, received the greatest honor in history. She was chosen to be the mother of the savior of the world. And when her son grew up and began to teach His way of life, He ushered woman into a new place in human relations. He accorded her a dignity shed never known before, and crowned her with such glory, that down through the ages, she was revered, protected and loved. Men wanted to think of her as different from themselves. Better made of finer, more delicate clay.
It remained for the 20th century, the century of progress, to pull her down from her thrown. She wanted equality. For 1900 years, she had not been equal. She had been superior. To stand equal with men, naturally she had to step down. Now, being equal with men, she has won all their rights and privileges. The right to get drunk. The right to swear. The right to smoke. The right to work like a man. To think like a man. To act like a man. Weve won all this, but how can we feel so triumphant, when men no longer feel as romantic about us, as they did about our grandmothers? When weve lost something sweet and mysterious? Something as, as hard to describe as the haunting wistful fragrance of violets?
Of course, these arent my original thoughts. Theyre the thoughts I heard that Sunday morning. But from them, some thought of my own were born. And the conclusion reached, that somewhere along the line, we women got off the track.
Poets have become immortal by remembering on paper a girls smile. But Ive never read a poem rhapsodizing over a girls giggles at a smutty joke. Or Ive never heard a man brag that his sweetheart or his wife could drink just as much as he, and become just as intoxicated. Ive never heard a man say that a girls mouth was prettier with a cigarette hanging out of it, or that her hair smelled divinely of stale tobacco.
Im afraid thats all I have to say
Ive never made a speech before.
(Catherine Exits; youth rally clapping)
I highly recommend the movie, every person should see it, wonderful Christian movie with a wonderful love story
That reminds me of a scene from some wacky movie with Ben Afleck (maybe). He’s a hard living guy and he’s talking with another of that type and the second guy is complaining that he can’t keep a girl because they always complain about his drinking, smoking, gambling. So the Ben Afleck guy says: Just find a girl who likes to drink and smoke and gamble. And the other guy says: Who wants a girl like that?