I'll go very quickly.
I can't speak in public without a security detail, even though I'm just a random lady from Canada. I'm a white woman with a Canadian passport who receives an enormous number of death threats for trying to talk about violence against women in a Canadian context. You can just imagine how folks who don't have the privilege I do are not speaking.
That's one of the more difficult things to measure—the collective silencing of people. They see someone like me being threatened and think, “I would never want to be in her shoes. I'm not as protected as this woman is, and she's being treated this way.” We need to recognize that this has a tremendous impact on our ability to even talk about these issues.
When my colleagues from White Ribbon are speaking, for example, and it's a little spicier than what I'm saying, they get, “Thank you so much for talking. It's great that men are talking about this.” Then I'll say something so banal compared with what they did, and I need to be escorted back to my car.
I'm a tremendously privileged person, so we need to think about who is not able to be in my chair because it's not safe enough for them to speak. That's a problem you should all be concerned about.