So, I remember being at this college party, and seeing this young woman begin groped. She was laughing, the men who were around her were laughing, all of us were laughing, and I'm ashamed to tell you that not one of us took her by the hand and said this is not okay, let's get out of here.
Now, my dad's a great guy, he was the best man at my wedding, but not in a million years before he sent me off to college would he have imagined that particular scenario where he said, this is what you're gonna see, and when alcohol is involved this is what's gonna happen, and this is how I expect you to behave as a gentleman, as a man.
So, if my dad's a good guy, and wouldn't have even thought to have that conversation with me, what about all the young men who don't have any mentors?
So, what it makes me think about is what we tell young boys, what we tell men, the saying that I just have grown to hate, and this is man up, right? And what does that mean?
It means suck it up, don't be a wuss, no pain, no gain, don't show anybody how you feel, right? And what we're raising is a generation of young men who can't express emotions, who can't express themselves, who can't cry.
We demean women by yelling, on the sidelines, you're playing like a girl, which is horrific, and then they grow up and then they're in real-word situations, difficult situations in business, and their personal lives, and marriage, and raising kids, and it's like a powder keg, right?
And then they blow and we wonder, we wonder well what happened? How come he did that? And I think we have to really think about on both ends, how are we raising our boys to be what it really takes to be a man?
And on the other side, how are holding men today accountable for their behavior? 'Cause a real man would never hit a woman, that's not okay. You can't do that.