I am writing in the wake of #me too, which was, among everything else, a movement burst by words. For it is one thing to sketch a world where sexual assault is a problem in the workplace, and quite another to detail Manhattan offices with rape doors, or star anchors ambushing assistants on vacation, or actors who claim to be male feminists, but leave a trail of abuse behind them. What I remember in reading the investigative pieces on these cases is how all the activist and academic jargon, all the talk of patriarchy and rape culture and male privilege became solid and embodied in a way that did not just leave me convinced, but implicated me. It was not news to me that I was privileged as a man but I now felt the privilege with new horror. I thought about my own career and understood that whatever its challenges a rape button did not rank among them, and that is the world made clear. — T-Nehisi Coates "The Message"