"My uncle, like many first-world white men, has lived a very privileged life. One which has resulted in very little inconvenience or trauma, or anything of the like."

My father, who at 9 lost his first-world white father to cancer during the height of the Depression, was forced out of school in grade 8 to work to support his three younger siblings for 25 cents a week.

My father, who at 20, had the white man's privilege of spending 4+ 'non-traumatic' years aboard a Canadian destroyer on the North Atlantic and later off the coast of Normandy battling fascists during World War Two.

Gillian, of course you did not deserve any kind of unwanted sexual attention let alone assault. The need for compassion is imperative.

Often, the damage can be catastrophic.

As catastrophic as making a huge over generalized assumption that 'many' men, whatever the colour of their skin, do not suffer nor feel trauma or see themselves as broken...or worse, lack empathy for those who have been grievously wounded or falsely labelled.

Unfortunately, in these volatile, anxiety-ridden and therefore caustic times, when an enemy is needed to generate solidarity, his gender alone becomes enough to solidify the definition of villain.