Lena Dunham has praised and expressed her support for Tom Meagher in a screengrab published yesterday on her Instagram account quoting an excerpt from his essay ‘The Danger of The Monster Myth‘ which was published in April this year, eighteen months after his wife Jill’s tragic death.
In her accompanying caption, Dunham also addressed the inexplicable and frankly ridiculous notion that feminism is necessarily equated with misandry, writing:
“To anyone who has accused me/us of vilifying men as a group: analysis of the rampant forces that keep women from speaking about assault should not scare you. It should excite you, because you will have happier, more engaged and empowered partners who trust you and open up to you. I fucking love men, I want to be in dialogue with men.“
Concludes Dunham in a fashion that you’ve come to know and love from her prolific contribution to discourse around women’s rights issues: “Tom Meagher used his wife’s unspeakable death to create dialogue, so bless the fuck out of him.”
Last month, on the second anniversary of his wife’s death, Tom Meagher published a similarly as moving essay paying tribute to his late wife and their time together. You can read that here.
You can also read Tom Meagher’s full ‘The Danger of The Monster Myth‘ essay and find out more about the campaign to eradicate violence against women from Australian society over on The White Ribbon Campaign blog.
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Beautiful words from Tom Meagher, whose wife Jill was raped and murdered. To anyone who has accused me/us of vilifying men as a group: analysis of the rampant forces that keep women from speaking about assault should not scare you. It should excite you, because you will have happier, more engaged and empowered partners who trust you and open up to you. I fucking love men, I want to be in dialogue with men. And Tom Meagher used his wife’s unspeakable death to create dialogue, so bless the fuck out of him.
Photo by Thos Robinson/Getty Images for The New Yorker
