"WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO TREAT ALL WOMEN THE WAY IN WHICH YOU WOULD WANT YOUR MOTHER AND SISTER TO BE TREATED. "
"LET'S TAP INTO AND AMPLIFY THE GOOD IN MEN AND TURN PASSIVE OBSERVERS OF INJUSTICE INTO ACTIVE CAMPAIGNERS FOR EQUALITY."- "SEXUAL ASSAULT IS NOT JUST A WOMEN'S ISSUE, AND I'M GRATEFUL TO THE MEN WHO HAVE THE STRENGTH AND CONVICTION TO JOIN..."
"ACCEPTANCE IS EASY. WALKING AWAY IS HARDER. BUT OUR GREAT RESPONSIBILITY IS TO CHANGE THE STATUS QUO WHEN WE DISAGREE."
"GENDER RELATIONS ARE THE OPPOSITE OF A ZERO-SUM GAME, IF YOU WILL, AND ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THIS ONE THAT PROMOTE..."
"THIS IS WHAT WE NEED. WHEN MEN SPEAK UP, THEIR PEERS WILL LISTEN. THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU DO."- "TO END THE DOUBLE STANDARDS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN THAT PERVADE OUR SOCIETY, WE AS MEN MUST TAKE ACTION IN PURSUIT OF..."
"RESPECTING WOMEN, THEIR SPACE, AND THEIR RIGHTS IS A CRUCIAL CAUSE THAT I BELIEVE IS ESSENTIAL FOR HARVARD MEN TO..."
"GENDER INEQUALITY AND THE FIGHT FOR SEXUAL RESPECT ARE REAL PROBLEMS AND REQUIRE ATTENTION. IT IS TIME THAT WE AS MEN..."
"I THINK THIS IS A PHENOMENAL PROJECT AND AM HAPPY TO HELP OUT."
Hugo's blog
Women in Advertising
See Alex Bogusky, the legendary advertising guru and designer, interview colleagues at CP+B about gender issues in the advertising industry. Entertaining, honest, and fearless.
Join Next MenSpeakUp Videos!
Apply to participate in MenSpeakUp expansion
A new generation of college students is speaking up for gender equality!
How about you? Would you like to make a short testimonial in favor of gender equality? Do you have a brief anecdote or personal statement that you would like to have presented in video or in written form?
Please visit our beta version at http://www.menspeakup.org/videos
*You can also nominate someone by emailing us or entering the form with their contact details ! This is actually one of the best ways that you can help us highlight respected community leaders and reach a wider audience.
Women and men from any college or university, are encouraged to apply to offer video contributions, and/or written statements, in favor of a progressive understanding of gender equality.
This year's video filming is scheduled for Filming will take place on:
*Friday the 26th of March from 1 to 5pm.
WhiteRibbon Day 2010: Connecting the dots to end violence against women
Over 350 people - mostly men and boys – from diverse communities across Massachusetts packed into Gardner Auditorium to pledge their commitment to be part of the solution in ending violence against women.
Everyone left transformed by the honest, courageous and inspiring
speakers who shared their personal and professional experiences with the
issue.
From Craig Norberg-Bohm, Coordinator,
Men's Initiative for Jane Doe Inc.
ManUp Campaign > Using Soccer to Inspire and Engage
The beginnings of a great campaign... using soccer, South Africa, and proactive media specialists to tackle the problem.
"Sport is our vehicle.
Man
Up uses sports to educate and empower young people. At the 2010 World
Cup, Man Up will host the first-ever Youth Summit to address violence
against women and girls. The Summit will pioneer a youth movement of
young advocates who will carry the torch of change into their
communities. This movement will make clear that violence against women
and girls will not be tolerated.
Every
community across the globe can tap into the international appeal of
Bold Idea: Truth-Labels
*Update
A gutsy French lawmaker, Valerie Boyer, is proposing a new law in National Assembly that could require the fashion and media industry to label as retouched all digitally altered photographs of people in advertising. The original New York Times story summarize many responses to the proposed law:
Some think such a law would destroy photographic art; some think it might help reduce anorexia; some say the idea is aimed at the wrong target, given that nearly every advertising photograph is retouched. Others believe such a label might sensitize people to the fakery involved in most of the advertising images with which they’re bludgeoned.
Bob Herbert: Society at Risk
"Women at Risk -
Life in the United States is mind-bogglingly violent. But we should take particular notice of the staggering amounts of violence brought down on the nation’s women and girls each and every day for no other reason than who they are. They are attacked because they are female.
A girl or woman somewhere in the U.S. is sexually assaulted every couple of minutes or so. The number of seriously battered wives and girlfriends is far beyond the ability of any agency to count.
There were so many sexual attacks against women in the armed forces that the Defense Department had to revise its entire approach to the problem.
“I am because we are. Since we are, therefore I am.”
The international community has been shocked by a recent South African study, headlined in the respected Mail & Guardian and picked up by The Huffington Post, which found that 1 in 4 men admitted to rape.
