Right now I'm plugging through Men at the Crossroads: Beyond Traditional Roles & Modern Options for class, and I'm having a bit of a hard time. At first, I was feeling pretty bratty about it, thinking things like, "Oh, poor men! They have it soooooo hard!" and rolling my eyes at the different men's movements.
What makes me angry is when men, especially Christian men, moan about society being all about women and how men are at a disadvantage now. Um, hello? No, they're not. Women still make 20-30% less then men do, we're still expected to be more like men at work....but this isn't why I'm here right now.
Basically, I was blowing off all questions and issues that men may have. Sometimes I get a glimpse and understand a little bit the stress that men are under, but I often think it's all their own doing with their machismo and weird ways of thinking and why don't they just knock it off?! And this doesn't help.
I want men to care about and try to understand women's issues, so why shouldn't I do the same for them?
So, I go back to my reading with a different frame of mind. I will listen to these lectures with interest and compassion, and my eyes will look forward, not at the ceiling.
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