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Dear Dad

I got this report just now about the success of this short.

"In just 3 months and with zero media budget, the film has gotten more then 100 million views, making it one of the greatest viral advertising successes in the world history"

Kinda hard not to feel proud to have been a part of it :beer:
 
We recently won the Grand Prize Award in New York for worlds best ad and also the White Pencil award. Incredible how well this has resonated with people! :emote_happyhappy:
 
Christoffer Glans said:
The comment section is now disabled, it was filled with hateful messages from men saying that the video was saying that all men are rapists and that it's feminist extremist propaganda etc. The nature of the "violence" in these comments really speaks for why this video is important and why the things in it needs to be said and heard.

The main problem I see with people (or rather only men) disliking this and in colorful language attacking the message in it and us who made it, is plain and simply because they are fucking stupid. The film doesn't portray men as rapists, it depicts that we have a culture of objectifying women and a general way of speaking using words like whore, cunt etc. that keeps affecting young girls growing up and boys as well. Making them keep this behavior to fit in to the social groups they live in until it's a part of who they are. For most people, this behavior just keeps continuing down to their own children and for some confused men this aggressive jargon leds them into committing rape.

So what most men who rage out against this video is missing is that the message is quite clear if they listen, it simply says that we as men should stop our jargon, our way of speaking deprecatory both to women and about them while stopping others when they do the same. Stop this way of behavior and stand up against others who does it. It's the only way to make sure that our daughters grow up in a world where they won't feel like second grade citizens and "pets" of men. It will also prevent men from going into the rape culture that is very much alive today.

If there is a real essence in feminism, the very core of it, it starts with how we teach our children to behave against one another. The only way to truly making sure everyone's equal in the future is to make sure the children all feel equal and treat others as equals. Everything else is just treatment of syndroms, not the actual sickness of inequality.

But as I mentioned... many men are just stupid and don't even listen to what is said in the video before lashing out; meaning they dislike the video and email really hateful messages to Jakob (the director). Reading those messages I feel that this world is more fucked up than I previously thought. The amount of pathetic men out there who's behavior keeps putting us, the good and nice men in bad shade is ridiculously high.
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Christopher, It is an amazing piece of filmmaking. I do have to say that I did feel as a white male that it's getting a little tiresome being conflated with some behavior that I've never taken part in. Of course I think that violent reactions are ridiculous and beyond the pale. I also think the piece will do a lot of good. So congratulations!!
 
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