A recent incident, when an adult male made a remark that seemed arguably insensitive but not offensive in the presence of my adolescent daughter, prompted reflection on where and how to draw that distinction.  Subtleties of context, as well as content, matter.

I am not a censorious person.  But both parenthood and the ethos of the time have made me more aware of bystander effects—positive and negative.

The Baltimore Sun published the piece—“A Feminist Dad Finds Himself in a Quandary”—online on December 28 and today in print.

I recently appreciated seeing two documentary films: “Heather Booth—Changing the World” on PBS and “I Am Shakespeare” (about a young man, Henry Green, who grew up in New Haven) at a local screening.