Women learn emotional sensitivity, and men do not. Women spend our lives learning to read men because our survival depends on it. Men never learn those skills, but are happy to take advantage of our skills and even feel entitled to our sensitivity.

The problem is not whether women choose to speak up. It’s that men don’t expect or want us to, we don’t feel safe to speak up, and when we do men complain or scowl or act in ways we find threatening.