How do we get men to care?

And other questions

I wasn’t going to write today because I’ve been doing so many book events over the past two weeks that frankly I’m stretched to my limit (and grateful, etc!). But it’s raining in NYC and the streets and the subways are a mess. I’m trapped inside and thinking about the many wonderful questions (and a few not-so-wonderful non-questions) that people have asked at events over the past couple of weeks.

It’s been fascinating to witness each of these events take on their very own shape. But one question that came up during the really moving, intimate, and powerful conversation that followed a talk I gave at Columbia earlier this week was a question I’ve encountered in various iterations quite a few times since I started doing press for Touched Out.

The question was something along the lines of: “How do we get men to care about this stuff?”

I have even had men ask me this question!

At the Columbia event, we talked a lot about the exhausting nature of this question. We also tried at some answers.

There are SO many new subscribers here— including many new PAID subscribers—which is wonderful, because you all make the work I do here paid work! So I thought I’d share a roundup of writing related to the absolute chaos of this question—a question women should not have to answer OR ask in rooms full of women—and then open it up to all of you to discuss. We are doing this behind the comfort of the paywall, which keeps the trolls out.