Room For Improvement (Week 8)

Another morning is bought in with weary eyes and a longing for my destination. We only have a little bit of our trip remaining, but the short distance might as well be a plane flight over seas. I decided to open up LinkedIn for the first time in a while and saw a powerful piece by the same former start-up CEO that I read about last week (Mekhi's character for the 2nd and final time this quarter). Apparently, the road trip he's taking allowed him to open up about his past. The conclusions he reached - at least to me - were probably some of the most important I think a man in his position could come by. He reflected on a film titled Thelma & Louise and how it made him think of times where he could have been an ally for female friends who he saw maneuver some frightening situations at parties he attended back in college. Out of curiosity, I decided to see the movie for myself.
After watching, I was thoroughly reminded of the privilege I have of being a male and how much responsibility that privilege carries. The series of bad events that continued to occur were spawned by a husband believing he owned his wife and a random guy believing that he owned a woman he just met. I pride myself on how I have been raised to respect women as if they are my own grandmother, but this movie reminded me that I need to do more than that. I can't just stroll through life happy that "at least I do the right thing". I need to implore other guys that I know who do not think like me to feel the same. There is indeed, much room for improvement.