Simon Leo Williams

Darug/Gundungurra country AUS. He, father, partner, gardener, social ecologist, family support, somatic psychotherapist. Value safety/difference/collaboration

[Simon Leo Williams @simonleo80]

Men need to actively deconstruct notions of women/children/men; to engage w life, w'out threat, in r'ship. To tend to what we don't tend to

[Sage @sagescrittore]

last night Ursula K. Le Guin visited my dreams and I said to her "Queerness is a long thread of hurt" and she answered "Now what will you mend with that thread?" and it rocked me so hard I woke up crying

[Simon Leo Williams @simonleo80]

@DanielM30207347 @SirBAntMQ @JaneCaro Supporting men's accountability in specific ways is the direct opposite of policing or blaming allmen. There is nothing as ironically male as individualistic entitlement and denial of other's work your thinking and belief and standards are shaped by though! Take some of the load

[Aakanksha Gaur @sia_steel]

“Trauma decontextualized in a person looks like personality. Trauma decontextualized in a family looks like family traits. Trauma in a people looks like culture.” — @ResmaaMenakem with @kristatippett

[Helene @heleneheleneso]

@slamup Of course you’re absolutely right, and I didn’t see the interview, but i suspect s/he meant the spirit of those left in the community while the war was being fought - the keep calm and carry on generation. My grandmothers, looking after their many children/households for years

[Vaxine Beneba Clarke @slamup]

Some commentator on the ABC just said "We'll all get through this if we pull together and have the war time spirit"

Does he not realise that the main spirit of war is killing people?

[Simon Leo Williams @simonleo80]

@gailparminter @MichaelGLFlood @gregwhite248 It is worth being more specific is because there is so much generalised reactivity about masculinity as some assumed singular unit supposedly being under attack rather than valuing critical reflection on different constructions of masculinity and what they serve

[Simon Leo Williams @simonleo80]

@gailparminter @MichaelGLFlood @gregwhite248 Yes this was my first thought in reading the original tweet.

[Simon Leo Williams @simonleo80]

@spackie101 @MichaelGLFlood You've managed to tick both boxes of violent misogyny and endless navel gazing with your avoidant conspiracy theorising

[Simon Leo Williams @simonleo80]

@PeterCa22748591 @MichaelGLFlood We do need to develop healthy relationship with women beyond the default of projecting our shame onto them through violence

[Simon Leo Williams @simonleo80]

@PeterCa22748591 @MichaelGLFlood We do indeed need to develop healthy differentiation as men beyond the constant blame and reactivity that characterises men's rights movement...most ironic being MGTOW who are stuck in obsession about women

[Simon Leo Williams @simonleo80]

@2GB873 No one screams hysterically quite like Latham

[Mark Greene @RemakingManhood]

Professor Way’s research shows us boys express deeply fulfilling emotional connection and love for each other, but by the time they reach adulthood, that sense of connection evaporates. This is a catastrophic loss — one that we assume men will simply adjust to. They do not. /1

[Simon Leo Williams @simonleo80]

@smutna_krysa @MichaelGLFlood You sound salty about misogyny and harassment being called out however many years later...it will always be called out brother and your arrogant dismissal only further indicts you in perpetuating rape culture

[Simon Leo Williams @simonleo80]

@MalePsychology @MichaelGLFlood Lol call something nonsense in same breath as saying 'beta bias'

[Mark Greene @RemakingManhood]

Men who are about abusing others (both men and women) simply don't know how to navigate equal power relationships, especially across gender. This is why #MeToo seems so unfair to them even as they abuse others. /16

[Mark Greene @RemakingManhood]

THREAD: Men can live in a world of sexual harassment and violence against girls/women and not be impacted personally. This is privilege. When this is pointed out, we become uncomfortable, then annoyed. As if we are being victimized by not being allowed to go on ignoring it all /1

[Simon Leo Williams @simonleo80]

@MichaelGLFlood So many men reacting to prove the point by attacking and belittling Michael, instead of taking opportunity to reflect critically and compassionately on healthy masculinity. Anti-feminism does nothing at all for men. Antagonism from men's 'rights' movement severly hinders men