OUR KIND

Our favorite season — awards — will have been wrapped by the time this issue hits newsstands. But through the glitz and the glam (and the occasional controversy), I was struck by one noteworthy speech at the SAG Awards from the great Jane Fonda that cut through. In it, she declared that “empathy is not weak or woke. And by the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people.”

Daniel Reynolds

As attacks on LGBTQ+ people rain from the federal level, the way forward seems hazy and perilous. Sometimes, it can feel safer to tune out and to rest on the sidelines while more marginalized groups are targeted. But I urge you to not to lose sight of the power of empathy, of being awake to the dangers that we not only personally face, but of those threatening the lives of others. This empathy is our strength. In our cover story with Luke Macfarlane, the Bros star also bemoans this cultural shift toward prizing the “brutal and tough and mean.” As he reminds us, “it doesn’t hurt you to be kind.” Though he often felt pressured to adopt a harsher form of masculinity in Hollywood, he resisted, and this principal of…

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