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“It hurts. It’s someone you love. I didn’t know. I didn’t see it,” Skolnik, who was Simmons’s political adviser, said on the Yahoo News show “Dear Men.”He says he believes women, regardless of close relationships and friendships, but also acknowledges that Simmons has contributed a lot to the world culturally. “You know, I’ve confronted him … and I think many of us men — including him — have a lot of introspection work to do, and I hope he does it. It seems he is.
According to Skolnik, men have to move from allyship to accomplice. “Allyship says you go first. … I’m with you in your movement. Accomplice means what happens when you’re not there?” he asked. “I want to know that when I go home that I said something, that I did something and that no one was watching. I need to go home and look at my son in the face and say ‘Daddy’s gonna stand up and you are too.