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Everyone is asking what men can do. #NotAllMen #TooManyMen #YesAllWomen Men could hold silent vigils, could demand their peers change, could challenge sexism from peers (and in their own attitudes/values). Men could try to unlearn what society has shamefully taught them since
childhood, which is that women are special & different, that sex is a conquest, that control of women is a way to move up the patriarchal pecking order, that sex is something men want & women choose to give or withhold until they are persuaded or forced otherwise, that women are
objects to be looked at, that displays or language of violence & toughness are manly & are a universal way to impress other men, that women (often women of a certain race & class at least – White, middle class) need looking after & protecting yet at the same time what all women
#TooManyMen on here saying: "This is the way of the world." It's not. It's the way of the patriarchy. Not all men built the hill. But all men benefit from their position on it: that sense that they deserve more space, more respect, more of what they want than women do.
My first assault by a man. I was 7. I was told not to make a fuss, to be polite, and not to be alone with him again. Throughout childhood and adolescence, I took that advice with a dozen men, some strangers, some colleagues. I was polite; obedient. It doesn't work.
Dozens of incidents down the line, I was attacked on Oxford Street at Christmas by two men who grabbed my bag and tried to drag me into an alleyway. I made a fuss. No-one intervened. So I knocked the fuckers down. Left one of them with a bloody nose. It worked just fine.
