Asserting power over others creates significant psychic burdens—in the moment, and for future generations to address. If we want to free ourselves from this system, the liberation of men can’t be an afterthought. Nor is it worth criticizing all of them for participating in a structure of which they’ve barely been conscious. None of us have known any other way. As more of us wake up to norms that drive society, we can begin to shift them.
