I recently gave a group of 11 young women the opportunity to speak at the Royal Asiatic Society. For months they prepared their topics, posters, and digital content, filled with nervous excitement that they would be talking to professors, diplomats, and members of society about the real issues that affected their lives. They spoke of outrageous beauty standards; they said that parents did not always understand their hobbies and the career paths they chose; they revealed what it was like dating foreign guys. And they did all this with passion and enthusiasm. Taking the freedom afforded them and demonstrating true courage to show the world who they really were and what they actually thought. The talk that night received a great ovation. People whooped with excitement. They clasped their hands, offering gratitude and praise. Thanks to technology, the talk given in downtown Seoul was examined in Polish lecture halls and Italian media offices. A great success. It was only afterward, while reading the analyses and reports that followed, that I felt the dull recognition of something that had