Tony Porter Ted talk; A call to men.

[lumberjack_jeff]

44. I appreciate your participation.

I'm also going to kind of deconstruct paragraph 2 as well, and I hope this doesn't sound like a pile-on, because my reaction is somewhat different from Warren D

I'm not picking up that there's anything fundamentally wrong with men. The point I got was that most men are fundamentally good and decent. How could they not be? You don't want your daughters to be reduced to sexual objects, or abused, any more than mothers do.

Is that the only metric that's important for a man to be considered fundamentally okay? (I know it's not - not consciously at least) But as a first reaction, it's worth examining; the first and most important value of a father is protecting their daughters perceived virtue.

That's my main issue with the video; the myriad problems with men are only issues to the extent that they manifest as insensitivity, disparagement and (too often) violence to women.

Maybe deal with the dominoes at the beginning rather than at the end. A guy who gets a poor education partly because of his incarcerated father, doesn't go to college which results in getting a poor paying job and frequent unemployment, which results in poverty for his family which causes marital stress which causes mutual IPV, which causes injury to her, which causes jail for him.

The paradigm "men suck" is the last domino which circles around to trip the first one. It's a self-propagating system.