I like the company of other men. Usually this revolves around  a sport or an expedition followed by a  conversation, often a post mortem of the experience we've shared. This experience changes if there's a woman with us and that's nice too although I do find that I feel something is amiss if I don't have access to a space inhabited only by men from time to time.

I believe that there are lots of poorly trained men walking around our country and this scares me. The thought that the women in my life may be exposed to sexual assault is a thought I can only hold for a brief moment before it becomes too painful and I have to push it away. An academic discourse tells me I shouldn't do this - that this reluctance to "look" at this pain speaks to my objectification of women - that it is about my possession of their bodies, that my pain is nothing more than the reaction to the violation of what I regard as mine. I don't know about that. I just feel the pain of my powerlessness would crack me.