Power for Women

* In their column, “Put the Blame Where It Belongs: On Men” (Commentary, June 25), Jackson Katz and Sut Jhally propose that male violence against women can and is changing for the better through educational prevention programs directed at young men and public demonstrations of disapproval by men. These are worthwhile and welcome suggestions, but only when women share political, economic and social power equally with men will this evolutionary change take place.

Women bring with them into societal power structures a way of addressing and solving problems that is not combative and must be able to utilize that ability in the real world for fundamental change to occur. Men can’t do it for us; we must do it by ourselves, for ourselves and for society as a whole. The Million Mom March against gun violence this Mother’s Day was a powerful demonstration that this change is fast becoming a reality.

FRANKIE HALLER

Bellflower