When the popular feminist slogan urges men to see a woman as ‘someone’ as opposed to ‘someone’s mother/sister/daughter/wife/possession’, it takes things even further. To imagine a generic woman as an individual like himself is to imagine that her worth is as much as his own. It takes empathy and awareness to imagine anyone being as important as oneself—but that’s all it would take to have him ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’
