While men benefit from patriarchy, they also suffer from patriarchy's restrictive gender identities and roles. Men do not volunteer for patriarchy they are born into it and subjected to masculinities dictated by patriarchy. With that power comes the requirement to dominate others in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social superiority, property control, and sexual supremacy over women. Patriarchy is a social system that privileges men with power. Men cannot end sexualized violence without undoing patriarchy. We must educate ourselves and others, examine the sexual and gender biases that seed sexualized violence, and innoculate ourselves and our cultures. We must talk about the causes, effects, and solutions to ending men's sexualized violence. The goal of sexualized violence against someone sufficiently male-bodied and satisfactorily performing masculinity is to degrade them by feminizing them otherwise nonsexualized forms of violence are used. The target of sexualized violence can be a female body, the body of someone presenting as female or femme, or a male-bodied or male-presenting person insufficiently performing masculinity.
Sexualized violence devalues women, female practices, feminine ways of thinking, feeling and being, feminine energy, and femme presentation. Sexualized violence is a deadly virus lurking in everyday cultural beliefs, attitudes, and practices, and, while hidden, is immune to prevention, treatment, and cure.Īnyone can fall victim to sexualized violence regardless of gender identity. Sexualized violence is any act of physical or psychological violence targeting sexuality or gender and used to undermine a person's sexual or gender integrity. It's an engaging event that gets the community talking about sex and gender biases, gender identity, gender relations, and men's sexualized violence. It's impressive to see such a visually stunning public statement of listening, learning, allyship, and commitment. It's not easy walking in these shoes, but it's an experience around which a lot of education, self-reflection, and change happens. There is an old saying: "You can't understand another person's experience until you've walked a mile in their shoes." To get people listening, learning, and talking, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® education Events organize around men literally walking one mile in women's high-heeled shoes. In this space of playful confrontation and openness, it's possible to reveal and consider many of the underlying causes of men's sexualized violence with less defensiveness and denial. Why men in women’s high-heeled shoes? We ask men to walk in women's high-heeled shoes to actively confront gender stereotypes and expectations. It is a dramatic opportunity to raise awareness in your community about the serious causes, effects, and remediations to men's sexualized violence. To kick off this year’s initiative, we are adding the “Roll” to our “Walk” leading into pediatric cancer awareness month.Since 2001, men, women, and their families around the world have joined award-winning Walk a Mile in Her Shoes®: The International Men's March to Stop Rape, Sexual Assault & Gender Violence.
In 2021, we asked our community to “Walk a Mile” in the shoes of families facing pediatric cancer in WNY to raise money for our “Helping Hands” program, which meets the most critical needs of WNY families whose children are fighting cancer – through providing assistance with direct payment of essential household expenses: rents, mortgages, auto loans, utility and medical bills, gas and groceries and more. THESE ARE THEIR SHOES of families facing pediatric cancer since the day that diagnosis came. Add on the burden of financial instability and lost wages. Anxiety, loss of control, the fear that every germ might pose a serious medical threat. But now, we all can relate a little more closely to a “day in the life” of this plight. It is difficult for many to comprehend even having to hear those words.
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