I'm a man appalled by this letter. The real problem is so horribly different from something as simple as what used to happen decades ago. To minimize the hurt is unacceptable. It's what's happening now, every day. Look around you. The #metoo is everywhere. Of course not every man is guilty, but some are, and it's clear that most women have had to suffer it in one degree of another. At the very least, we men owe women our respect for the truth of it, and – more so – the hurt of it. Denying that it happens contributes to it happening again.  And it's not because we have mothers, wives, or daughters, it's because we're human, it's wrong, denying it is wrong, and we want it not to happen to any woman ever again. 

And, by the way, not to any man, or to anybody not gender binary either. But let's focus our outrage on men harassing women, which is by far the most common variety.