MC work at the first level is about basic awareness of two groups in multiple variables on multi-levels. The groups I refer to is the seemingly powerful and their relationship to the seemingly powerless groupings that we see in a specific culture. Look at our culture : Classism, Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism, Ableism ... I am just talking about the news THIS WEEK! The way the training is structured and the way that its effects are seen in the organization are the product of what I would call the culture of the Apologist where we sit in guilt for our part in just being who we are and what we believe. Now emboldened by this awareness we as an organization are hesitant to hold historically excluded men accountable and, where differences become stated, we will begin to defer to the culturally oppressed groups and dysfunctionally grant them a pass while we continually ponder the part of powerful in the dynamics. This is the Age of the Apologist. It seizes the process i...