Dear Indian men,
The #MeToo movement is almost a month old, but many of you are missing in action. In fact, some of you even seem angry, dismissive, increasingly scoffing at “frivolous” complaints. But please let’s get this clear: #MeToo is not a movement of adversarial, man-hating ‘feminazis’. In fact, gender justice has never been only about women, but about modernity, an expansion of democracy, an opportunity to build new relationships of trust and dignity.
It should come as no surprise that the men who’ve been exposed as sexual assaulters mostly belong to a senior vintage. In the 1970s and ’80s when women began to enter professions, they faced a patriarchal phalanx. Male bosses imposed their power with impunity. They stared, groped, Read More
