Sheree Strange
Aug 22, 2017 · 1 min read

Oh dear Oprah, DON’T THEY AND A HALF.

I’m lucky enough to know a lot of men who agree that feminism is great and that there’s a lot of shit things that men do to women. Only a very, very tiny percentage of them are able to acknowledge any behaviour of their own that contributes to that in any way. Like, I can literally think of one who will listen to me when I say “Dude, that’s bullshit, stop!”, take a moment to think about it and come back to say “You know what, you’re right, I’m going to work on that”. Even having the audacity to suggest that “a lot of the men I know seem to get defensive when I call them out on bullshit like [e.g., the behaviour you describe here]” is usually met with raised voices, threatening posturing, and insistence that “I CERTAINLY WOULD NEVER DARE DO SUCH A THING AND YOU CLEARLY AREN’T EVEN LISTENING TO ME AND YOU’VE GOT SOME FUCKING NERVE, LADY!”.

So, good on you. Call them out. Let them get defensive. Maybe just a drop of sense will trickle through and germinate a change in someone somewhere. Keep fighting the good fight ;)

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