It happened on a bench in Peru, a turning point in my life. I didn’t know it at the time but after that trip I would never be the same person. I had just returned to Cusco after a solitary journey to Machu Picchu and was preparing to fly to Lima to begin my volunteer placement. To begin what felt at the time like my small effort in making the world a better place.
Read MoreWe live in a society that permits men to treat women like property (for a long time the status of many women was property either of her father or husband). We live in a society that permits men to treat women like play things. A society that views women as if they were less than. So when we talk about Harvey Weinstein and Louis C.K. and Bill Cosby and the depressingly long list of serial predators, we’re talking about more than a few problematic individuals.
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