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From the Ted Talk by Jude Kelly: Why women should tell the stories of humanity

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Now, I wasn't really surprised, because that's an attitude that I've seen continuously all my life as a theater _____. We are told that divine _________ comes down through the masculine, whether it be to the imam, the priest, the rabbi, the holy man. Similarly, we're told that creative genius resides in the masculine, that it is the _________ that will be able to tell us about who we really are, that the masculine will tell the universal story on behalf of all of us, whereas women _______ will really just talk about women's experiences, women's issues only really relevant to _____ and of passing interest to men — and really only some men. And it's that conviction, that that we are taught, that I think colors so much of whether we're prepared to believe that women's stories really matter. And unless we're prepared to believe that women's stories really matter, then women's rights don't really ______, and then change can't really come.

Solution

  1. knowledge
  2. artists
  3. women
  4. masculine
  5. matter
  6. maker

Original Text

Now, I wasn't really surprised, because that's an attitude that I've seen continuously all my life as a theater maker. We are told that divine knowledge comes down through the masculine, whether it be to the imam, the priest, the rabbi, the holy man. Similarly, we're told that creative genius resides in the masculine, that it is the masculine that will be able to tell us about who we really are, that the masculine will tell the universal story on behalf of all of us, whereas women artists will really just talk about women's experiences, women's issues only really relevant to women and of passing interest to men — and really only some men. And it's that conviction, that that we are taught, that I think colors so much of whether we're prepared to believe that women's stories really matter. And unless we're prepared to believe that women's stories really matter, then women's rights don't really matter, and then change can't really come.

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