"It isn’t that men haven’t been called to the conversation, but rather that they’ve constantly rejected the invitation. Men have consistently and deliberately turned to women in feminist movements and said that their concerns are not urgent, or important, or even real. They’ve sought ways to blame women for the oppression they face, or in the most charitable version of events, attempted to derail conversations by saying, “The real issue is…” Some men flat out deny there is a problem at all, while some of even the self-proclaimed progressive men try to find ways to again center men in the fight for equality and justice...
There’s something to be said for meeting people where they are, but lightly massaging around the hardest parts so as not to upset anyone accomplishes only mild reform. It’s like Dana was trying to get us to understand earlier this week in her post on the “It’s On Us” campaign. Anything that doesn’t get us to challenge the status quo will only reinforce it."
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