History of Feminism

that you need to respond to them or police them. It's up to them to do that. I'm sure they don't appreciate when you do speak up, and I don't blame you at all for just trying to ignore it. That's where I would hope another guy would step in and support you, or even better, say something before you feel the need to. (I would hope, anyways, it rarely seems to be the case.)

Anyways, I'm happy to speak up. I'm lucky enough that in my circle of friends (referring to male friends) it usually only takes a couple words for them (or me, sometimes) to realize we've said something stupid and think about it and apologize (to the other guys). Wow, too many parenthetic statements there, but whatever, I'm tired and it's too much effort to fix