10/02/2026
Being a “good man” is about more than simply not harming women yourself.
It’s about what you do when another man makes the degrading joke. The sexually violent comment. The threat disguised as “locker room talk.” When he talks about women like they’re objects and looks around the room expecting the other men to laugh along.
Do you laugh?
Do you look away?
Do you stay quiet because you don’t want to make things uncomfortable?
Or do you make it uncomfortable?
My dad taught me very early what the latter looks like.
Men who disrespect women need to know that behaviour will cost them the respect of other men. They need to hear “that’s fu**ed up” from their friends, coworkers, teammates, brothers and fathers, not only from women.
You may not change the man making the comment.
But you can make damn sure your silence is never mistaken for agreement.
And right now, that distinction matters.