Michael Kimmel’s Learning Moment and Ours

A prominent professor’s rumored #HeToo behavior prompts a fundamental rethink about gender and ethics

I first met Michael Kimmel in the early 1980s, when we moved in the same profeminist men’s movement circles. We were both starting out in our writing careers, trying to reckon with what feminist women were saying and trying to reconcile it with how we understood ourselves as men. I ...
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Michael Kimmel’s Learning Moment and Ours

Sexual Harassment and #MenToo

The Five Stages of Belief

The headlines are full of revelations of sexual harassment by men in power, and women, who are typically the targets of harassers, are “getting it” -- in many cases coming to new consciousness about the pervasive effects of men’s sense of sexual entitlement. Many men, though, are having trouble wrapping ...
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Sexual Harassment and #MenToo