Writer A.R. Moxon has recently invited all men to take part in an interesting empathy exercise. He presented women’s encounters with violent behavior and sexual assault in a way that most men could relate..."getting kicked in the nuts."

"Speaking on the societally-macro level, empathy has been largely a one-way street when it comes to gender roles and dynamics," Moxon says “In my experience, women are empathetic toward men, while men tend not to be particularly empathetic toward women."

"Put another way, women have to think about what men are feeling as a matter of survival. Men aren’t in a similar situation, and so, if they don’t want to, they don’t. And, by and large, we don’t want to."

"When women tell their stories of living with danger and vulnerability in abusive relationships and of survival from assault, our first instinct appears to be to protect ourselves from personal culpability and accountability; we certainly saw that dynamic play out as the Kavanaugh story developed."

Moxon admits that his analogy s not perfect, and he has received a lot of feedback since he shared it. Positive and negative."

“I chose nut-kicking because there isn’t a man alive that doesn’t understand exactly what a nut-shot is, and, with very few exceptions, none who would ever want it or seek it out or go out ‘asking’ for it,” he clarified.

“Most importantly, no man confuses getting kicked in the nuts with sex. It’s very clearly violence, even though it involves sex organs."

"The idea of growing up in a society where getting hoofed in the balls is normalized behavior, systematically if tacitly allowed by a complicit society, and frequently confused with a pleasurable activity like sex, would rightfully be horrifying to any guy.”