Summary Of A Political Party For Women's Equality By Sandi Toksvig

Ted Talks, concentrated around activism and politics, are meant to be insightful and inspirational. In A Political Party for Women’s Equality, Sandi Toksvig inspires the audience by stating facts and spouting humor to share her solution to the problem of inequality: a political party for women’s equality that can be shared across the world. Toksvig keeps her speech inspiring and intriguing by using visuals and sharing stories of her home life, like how she was one of the first gay people to come out on television. Sandi Toksvig engages the audience by connecting to them using visuals, humor, and casual conversation.
While Sandi Toksvig does not have many assumptions about the audience, her topic automatically assumes that the audience is made up of those who believe in the same idea: gender equality. Her material also assumes that her audience is made up of women, rather than men. Because Toksvig shares the
First, Toksvig uses a picture of herself to show how “average” she is as a person, hence the quote on how there should be an Olympics for people with zero athletic ability. Next to her picture she adds the fact that the average person thinks 50,000 thoughts a day, but 95% of those facts are ones that were thought the day before. The next picture she uses is a picture of a gymnast with her leg stretched above her head and Toksvig adds the comment, “Do you think it would be worth being that flexible just to be able to see your heel at that angle?” The rest of her visuals accompany the topics she talks through such as International Women’s Day, her fact about the company owners of the London Stock Exchange, and even her own wedding. Body language isn’t something that Toksvig uses to support her argument like her visuals do, but they do show that she is very comfortable with her audience and what she’s talking about. Her entire speech is very