Life
Eithne Shortall: The young women, the leering man, and the problem with power imbalances
Events in a Dublin coffee shop were a reminder of why some people find it so hard to let go of oppressive power structures
Recently, I was in a Dublin café sitting near a group of retired men, probably in their late 60s. I listened as one of them talked about what he’d been up to recently. He had a real zest for life and it was lovely to get a window into someone else’s world.
I gleaned from their conversation that some, if not all, of these men had once had professions of authority. This was clearly a ...
