To all of us guys out there:
This is the time for us to take a deep breath and listen. Keep breathing and keep listening. If we hear anger and frustration and rage, then let us listen to the anger, the frustration, the rage. There is a reason why those emotions are there. In at least some small way (and probably bigger way than we are aware) we have all contributed to them. Keep breathing, keep listening.
And to all the guys who are inclined towards the #NotAllMen response to the#YesAllWomen campaign: Unless you have spent most of your life also saying NotAllMuslims and NotAllArabs and NotAllBlackMen and whichever else would be the appropriate response to when media and society at large demonize an entire group of people based on the actions of a few, then your cry of “but I am not like that” is at best defensiveness but more likely a misguided (even if subconscious) attempt to keep on to the male privilege of shaping the direction of the conversation and making everything about us.
We have had the floor for a very long time. Time to let it go, at least for long enough to be able to really listen. I think we will be better humans, and better men, for it.