Excluded from a Take Back The Night march, Jeff McMillan writes in Michigan State University's State News, April 12, 1995:

I try to pride myself on maybe being a little more understanding than the "typical" male who is painted with such care by women who have no comprehension of how much I feel for the feminist movement. I guess pride doesn't doesn't qualify me to "intrude" in a public crusade against violence—presumably because I am a perpetuator of that violence.

It's hard to swallow the idea that, because of my gender, I would make women feel uncomfortable if I were to march with them.... Why am I not allowed to feel the pain, share the rage and march with my sisters to alleviate the pain of future generations?

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