November 17, 2014
“The situation as it has long existed needs to be described bluntly. Let’s just say that a significant number of men hate women, whether it’s the stranger harassed in the street, the Twitter user threatened into silence online, or the wife who’s beaten. Some men believe they are entitled to humiliate, punish, silence, violate, and even annihilate women. As a consequence, women face a startling amount of everyday violence and an atmosphere of menace, as well as a host of smaller insults and aggressions meant to keep us down.”
Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me, writes a tour de force article about men, women and what makes a planet inhabitable.
Click here to jump to the article on the Huffington Post Blog.
