When I try to imagine what it might feel like to be a man, particularly a white man at this moment in time, I imagine what it would feel like to walk into a screening of "The Karate Kid" with only four minutes left in the movie.
You might notice the rest of the audience cheering loudly for Ralph Macchio, and not understand exactly why. Yes, his opponent is bigger and more aggressive — but they’re both trying to compete. They’re both fighting in the same ring. Since you’d missed the first 123 minutes, you wouldn’t know Billy Zabka and his friends spent most of them torturing Macchio.