Empathy for women is an attribute of masculinity. When men play the protector role they are trying to save a woman from grief or pain. If they had no… - Warren Farrell

We often hear, “Rape is rape, right?” No. A stranger forcing himself on a woman at knife point is different from a man and woman having sex while drunk and having regrets the morning. What is different? When a woman agrees to a date, she does not make a choice to be sexual, but she does make a choice to explore sexual possibilities. The woman makes no such choice with a stranger or an acquaintance.

We had affirmative action programs to help women help themselves economically. Is it now time for affirmative action programs to do for men’s feelings what the government did for women’s economics?

If we have integrity about our desire to support men to express feelings, every institution and attitude between the sexes will require questioning and adjusting.