It is important to have students reflect on ways in which gender has shaped their lives, both positively and negatively. Therefore, men need to think of ways in which gender has both privileged and disadvantaged them. For women, the converse may be true. Women tend to respond that they would get up, go downstairs, and lock the windows. Men hardly understand the question.
Men become aware that physical safety is of great concern to women.
I then ask them to consider what this means. One thing it means is that women are more vulnerable than men. I might then ask men to relate experiences where they were expected to be brave. The professor does not post to the list at all. I ask my Feminist Jurisprudence class to describe when they first noticed that the world was gendered and what they made of it.