#accountable

Complicit®
Brent Pruitt, 2021

Each member within society is responsible for the perpetuation of institutional oppression.

To what extent do we, as an individual, or collective, acknowledge our participation? How do we hold ourselves, and each other, accountable?

Complicit® is a declaration of recrimination and confession.

I really hate the rhetoric of people saying “it’s not men that do that, it’s boys”. If a man abuses someone, they’re called a boy, like they lost their “man card” for doing something heinous. This doesn’t break them down because you took their “man card”, all it does is inadvertently say “men can do no wrong”.

Mencan do wrong. Men do wrong a lot. You aren’t breaking an abusers ego by calling them a boy; you’re invalidating the victim by saying that an entire demographic is incapable of wrongdoing, even though the victim was wronged by that demographic.

Stop making comments like “men don’t do that, only boys do that” or “real men respect women, only boys cause harm”.