Commonsense fairness and humanity is needed We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss March 16, 2021 — 12.01am Normal text size The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. GENDER EQUALITY Commonsense fairness and humanity is needed I’m a bloke and was on school-pickup duty yesterday – I wish I could have marched, such a great thing to see happening. My mum taught me and my brother as boys in the 1980s and ’90s to respect girls and women – especially her and our sister. So I am fortunate to have lived and breathed her feminism (which today just looks like commonsense fairness and humanity, funny that) and – unlike many men more powerful than me – to find today’s changes afoot plainly needed and no great challenge to my values or self-concept. Thanks mum.