And where shall conversations take place? And By Whom?

[osewalrus]

Robert Reece is a young sociology professor at UT Austin. Some weeks back, he wrote a piece on teaching a class trying to get men to reevaluate how their dating behavior may be coercive. He observed that he has recognized that his own behavior in the past was coercive in ways he did not recognize at the time and now regrets. His point was that men need to take time to question their deeply held, culturally reenforced assumptions as he has needed to do.


Unsurprisingly, perhaps, two of his former girlfriends have had a somewhat different view. They have accused him of sexual harassment and practicing the type of coercive behavior which he explores in his class. This raises a set of complicated questions on how you affect social change, and by whom.