Link: Dating tips for the feminist man

[sonia]

Dating Tips for the Feminist Man by Nora Samaran.

An earlier article from the same blog as the previous link I posted.

10. Share the load. Consider it your responsibility to be continually self-reflexive about your actions and their effects. Don’t wait to be taught, because that puts multiple burdens on the other: to understand and name the harm that’s affecting them, and to take the risk to talk to you about it, and to find language to articulate it in a way you’ll hear. Those things all take a lot of energy and are not easy.

I'm wanting to get that quote engraved as a sign for my door. And as a footer on my email.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Don't wait to be taught!

A great line.

[sonia]

Yeah. Someone said to me recently, "Don't you find some relationships come into your life to remind you of something?" (like not being controlling.) I said, "No... I tend to keep track of such things on my own." mutters