MEN GATHER ROUND: THIS FORMER NFL FOOTBALL PLAYER WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO FIGHT SEXISM
"I really think the key for me, and a
lot of men, is that we actually have no clue what your lives are like."
Wade Davis is a former player for the National Football League and a self-identified feminist advocate. But when I meet him at a women’s leadership forum, he tells me that if I’d known him 10 years ago, I would have dismissed him as a total jerk.
“Every day I have to be actively involved in educating
myself to understand that women’s lives are very different than mine,” Davis says. “And I am actively complicit if I’m not doing work to make your lives better.”
It’s this attitude that makes Davis such an important figure at this particular cultural moment. As women and gender nonconforming people around the world drive a much-needed conversation about the realities of sexual harassment, feminism, and gender equality, many men are
wondering what it looks like to be a feminist ally.
And the gender-equality movement badly needs men to get on board. While it sometimes pains my ego to say so, women need male allies—men who feel implicated by sexism, and who are willing to take personal responsibility for bringing about social change...READ MORE
