Our culture of misogyny is the topic as Writers Voices speaks with Brendan Kiely about his new novel for young adults – Tradition. “I think that men too often construct their masculinity in ways that are anti-woman and that’s part of the problem. They haven’t even taken the time to imagine the individual. If you’re making a blanket statement, “Oh don’t throw like a girl” or “Man up” That’s the kind of language that already creates part of the problem.”
Men…lack the empathy and imagination sometimes to really step into that space of a woman’s experience and rarely have I read a book by a woman where the man didn’t seem real.
Girls and women support one another and don’t be afraid to stand up and say ‘No!’
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