The history of the world is one in which men have been taught to leverage our dominance over women – power granted simply by virtue of our being male. /1
For my father’s generation, men didn’t learn to negotiate as equals in their relationships because they controlled the economic power in the family. Men didn’t learn to deal with the daily uncertainty of not knowing because they were free to declare how things should be. /2
Whether we openly leverage it, this legacy of privilege has been handed down to us. Accordingly, developing our more nuanced relational capacities faltered or failed utterly, preempted by masculinity's habitual assertions of dominance. /3
And even when we attempt to navigate the complexities of equity in our romantic relationships with women, always behind the carrot lurks the stick of our power as men. /4
It takes only the slightest bit of empathy to imagine the rage this would create for us were our positions with women reversed. /5
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