10 Ways Men Can Actually Honor Gloria Steinem
She didn’t want a black-and-white photo with the word “icon” under it. She wanted the dishwasher unloaded.
A note from Lawrence
When Gloria Steinem died at ninety-two, the men’s tributes all looked the same: a black-and-white photo, the word “icon,” and zero verbs. Reverence costs a man nothing. She had no use for it anyway. “Don’t agonize,” she said. “Organize.”
So here are ten things men can actually do, from saying the word “feminist” out loud where it costs something, to giving women the credit in the meeting, to raising our sons the way we’ve learned to raise our daughters. My generation had the curriculum on a record album by 1974. We’ve had fifty-two years to get around to it.
