Geezuz, just read some of the replies to this post………….do men even hear themselves?
Last Saturday in NSW, a 23 year old woman, a 70 year old woman and a 90 year old grandmother were all killed by men they knew.
If your first reaction as a man is to get defensive, ask yourself why.
When women talk about men, violence and misogyny, they are talking about violent men. Abusive men. Sexist men. Predatory men. Intimidating men. Men who harass women, threaten women and hurt women.
If you aren’t one of those men, why make yourself the victim of the conversation?
Men commit the overwhelming majority of serious violence. Women live with that reality every day.
So when women are angry about violence, abuse, harassment and misogyny, stop demanding they make their anger more comfortable for us.
Listen to what they are angry about.
If a woman says, “I’m sick of men hurting women”, responding with “NOT ALL MEN” achieves nothing.
Nobody accused every man.
The question for men should be: what are we doing when we see misogyny, harassment, intimidation or violence from other men?
Women cannot do this work for us.
Men need to call out other men.
Share it. Talk about it. Challenge it.
This shit has to stop.