Richard Branson posted this video at the beginning of the week and I immediately retweeted it. If you don’t know who Archbishop Desmond TuTu is, he was instrumental in the pulling down of apartheid in South Africa. I have all the respect in the world for this man who has stayed the course, and in his old age continues to speak out against Mugabe, was well as against the western countries that do nothing to intervene.
How do you treat women?
I know many who will not hit their wife, but they will cut her down with harsh words, belittling her so that this poor excuse for a man can have some feeling of power. I know other men who will not harm a women, but talk trash about her at the office all day and gossip behind her back.
Some men will treat their sister with respect, but treat any other women as if she were an inanimate object to attain and throw away. Our magazine racks and television screens overflow with women paraded as animals who live only to fulfill lustful desires, men ranking them solely on their physical attributes.
And yet Archbishop TuTu asks: how do you treat women? Not ‘do you hit them?’, but how do you treat them? Because the measure of a man is not only in what he refrains from doing, but in what he actively chooses to do. Do you build the women in your life up? Do you champion their causes? Do you treat them with the full dignity and respect that they deserve as fellow human beings?
The measure of a man is in how he treats those who can do nothing for him.