“I don’t know what he had going on personally with the company or whatever it was. I know he wasn’t a temp like us,” Montero said. “I don’t know how much he was getting paid, but I was making good money there. You know I’m a little bummed out. I lost my job.”

via CBS

Patriarchy-brainwashed men will do anything, up to and often including decades of jail time, to avoid the long, slow, hard work of solidarity. Of standing arm-in-arm and building a movement with their most marginalized peers. Especially if putting in the work means making soup and watching kids instead of doing something flashy and satisfying in the spotlight. Especially if it involves taking direction. Especially if putting in the work means they have to do something hard every single day instead of just one time.