"REACH AND TEACH ACROSS BORDERS. SUPPORTING GIRLS' EDUCATION, AND MEN'S CONTRIBUTION TO SUPPORTING GIRLS' EDUCATION AND..."- "TAKE A STAND. SPEAK UP."
"I AM HERE TO HELP ANYWAY I CAN IN THE STRUGGLE NO WOMAN SHOULD STAND ALONE IN. AS PART OF THE PROBLEM, I PLAN TO BE PART..."- "AUTHENTIC MANHOOD MEANS PROTECTING WOMEN'S DIGNITY."
"MOST MEN DO NOT HURT OR DISRESPECT WOMEN. SPEAK UP TO THE MEN WHO DO."
"THE ERADICATION OF SEXUAL PREJUDICE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT IS AN IDEAL TO WHICH ALL OF US SHOULD STRIVE."
"“THE AMERICAN IDEAL [ ] OF SEXUALITY APPEARS TO BE ROOTED IN THE AMERICAN IDEAL OF MASCULINITY. THIS IDEAL HAS CREATED..."- "REAL MEN DO NOT COMMIT RAPE"
"THIS IS WHAT WE NEED. WHEN MEN SPEAK UP, THEIR PEERS WILL LISTEN. THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU DO."
"THERE ARE SOLUTIONS TO EVERY PROBLEM. WE ALL JUST NEED TO TAKE THE TIME TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. "
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Many Opportunities
I am very proud of the recent founding of Men Speak Up at Harvard and am only sad not to be in Cambridge to aid its activities. From my experience, such an organization can certainly fill a useful role on campus. This is not because sexual violence is not taken seriously by the university and my peers, but because men, the very object of scrutiny, are often underrepresented in such discussions. So here is an opportunity to speak rather than be spoken at, and I hope we take it. Another opportunity is to reclaim the middle ground of the debate. Gender relations is the great Bermuda triangle of issues; people sail in arguing and disappear without a trace. Too often will these debates polarize reasonable people. I am thinking chiefly of former Dean Harry Lewis' appeal sometime in the 90s for women, in particular, to travel with someone, even in well-lit and well-traveled areas.
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MenSpeakUp Launches TODAY!
I will remember today as a very special day. I am very proud to be involved in this movement that starts at Harvard but aims toward changing attitudes far beyond campus.
Most of the time, people think that initiatives that start on college campuses are about small topics - it's small politics, small journalism, small art, small science. But it's truly not. Whether we agree with their principles or not, we cannot deny that very influential social movements in American history were begun - or prominently flourished - across college campuses. SDS, civil rights, protests against the Vietnam war, even the Obama presidential campaign. They are all examples of people wishing to enact change and acting for it.
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Harvard Men Against Rape and MenSpeakUp
MenSpeakUp is to Harvard Men Against Rape what Hulu is to NBC... We started Harvard Men Against Rape (HMAR) back in 2003, as an anti-sexual violence group to focus on integrating men into the fixing this very big problem that affects all of us in so many ways.
That year, some guys from my fraternity and I showed up at some of the “Take Back the Night” week events. I’m sure one of our female classmates asked us to go, and at that point, we thought it’d just be one of those things you show up to, hang out with your friends, show some support, and then forget about later.
