After Weinstein, what kind of man are you?

Some men have said they knew what was going on but didn’t know how widespread it is. Or they, like most women, knew that it was everywhere. Maybe they feel confused about what they were supposed to have done, what they should do in the future. They’re quietly taking a look at themselves now, running through encounters they’ve had or witnessed, asking themselves if they’ve ever enabled a Weinstein or a Dr. Larry Nassar or Bill Cosby or Roger Ailes. They’re texting their female friends heartfelt paragraphs at 3 a.m. about how they hope they never hurt them or let somebody else hurt them, and their female friends are waking up at a normal human hour and looking at their phones and responding, “Are you drunk?”

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But this kind of man is important, and without him, nothing will change. As empowered to speak up as women are now, they’re still not very empowered to do much else. The people with the important jobs, for the most part, are still men. The men who need to hear it the most are need to hear it from a man. This isn’t because men are the ideal anti-sexual harassment advocates. It’s because some men still don’t believe things women tell them.

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