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column curated by Mark Matousek
Last summer, when Eve Ensler asked me to write something about violence against women -- from a male perspective -- I went to my desk feeling skeptical, and not at all sure that I had anything significant to say on the subject. Although I had grown up in a house where female molestations of various kinds happened on a regular basis, and had spent a good deal of my adult life (and therapist's time) sorting through the emotional rubble left behind after witnessing so much misogynist violence, I felt doubtful that my experience mattered -- for the simple reason that I was a man -- compared to the traumas I had witnessed in the lives of my mother and sisters... more >
dani meier
Men Need to Step Up
I spoke yesterday at an event recognizing International Women's Day. As a man whose been involved in mental health treatment and prevention activities for a couple of decades, I was asked to speak, I believe, because in recent years and months, there have been prominent stories about epidemics of domestic violence and sexual assault on college campuses, in the military, in the NFL, and appallingly it seems, almost anywhere that Bill Cosby might have been between the years of 1965 and 2008....more >