“A lot of men are quiet supporters of women,” said Jackson Katz, author of “Man Enough? Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity.” The millions of men who voted for Hillary and proclaim to support women’s rights don’t have a powerful-enough voice, says Katz.
But wait — isn’t the usual argument from liberal women that men have too much to say and too many venues in which to say it? Isn’t that why a “women’s march” is needed in the first place?
Men are understandably confused. Esquire’s Luke O’Neil is here to help. O’Neil explained what men should do:
“Anyone with any degree of self-awareness may be hesitant to blunder his way into areas he wasn’t explicitly invited into, and there has been the regrettable emergence of a reviled archetype in recent years of the performative male feminist who espouses feminist talking points to enhance his own status . . . As a modest suggestion, men simply need to do two things at once: Speak up and keep your mouth shut.”
Obviously.
But men aren’t the only ones getting mixed signals.
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