make a space for men in the movement

"We have to acknowledge that there are a lot of men in the world who are struggling with their own place in this hyper-masculinized patriarchal sexual system. There are a lot of men struggling with how to make sense of their socialization. They're struggling to be decent in a world in which it's very easy simply to accept privilege and power and ignore these questions. Now, men fail, I fail, we all examine our own lives, recognize how we fail but there is a need to reach out I think to those men. For two reasons, one is they are potentially part of a movement. Also, if we don't make space for men in a movement we give them no place to be. It's not just that it will be very difficult for most men to join but a lot of women who have allegiances to the men in their lives especially to boy children. You can't go to women and say we want you to join a movement in which your child will be perpetually defined as a predator and something to be eliminated. Not a strong argument to make to parents."

~Robert Jensen
Professor, Anti-porn feminist
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html