Sinclair and the men held a series of meetings, each one seeming to escalate in emotional intensity and patriarchal entrenchment until one night, after the third meeting, one of the men who’d been pivotal in Sinclair’s organizing of men went home and beat his own wife so badly that several women—“tough as nails women” Sinclair called them—came to him the next day and asked him to call it all off. This guy was serious. A lot of their husbands didn’t want them organizing. It had to stop. At the time, Sinclair said his attitude wasn’t that the husbands should refrain from beating their wives
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