Progressive men need to take the initiative
themselves. They don’t need to be invited because
so many of the issues we construct as women’s
issues are – domestic violence, intimate
violence, sexual violence, gender violence – they are, by
in large, men’s problems.
The incidence of violence against women remains
the same, so there is something we are not
doing.
And oftentimes we assume that all we have
to do it find out what the… famous activists
of the past did and we have the answer but
that’s not going to solve the problem because
those of us whose experiences are connected
with the past have not been able to extricate
ourselves from some ideas that are often very
regressive.
And I include myself.
Which is why I think the most important learning
I do at this age in my life is learning from
young people.
