To say nothing is to participate, and men can choose what kind of man they want to be. This was the message of Chuck Derry, founder of the Gender Violence Institute, Tuesday in a speech delivered as part of K-State's Violence Against Womyn Awareness Week. Derry said being the only man working with a feminist women's organization changed his life, because he discovered how sexist he was.
Men have fun raping women, and men enjoy beating women as well.
It is fun to have power over women. Derry said men could be brought in from all over the world, and they would have nothing in common, except that they feel superior to women. This male cultural phenomenon is taught while men are young, he said. Don't cry like a girl, don't run like a girl, don't throw like a girl. At ages 7 through adolescence, the worst insult he could remember was being called a girl.