What event prompted the author's change in attitude and behavior toward women as noted in the memoir, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker?

While working for Ebony, the author wrote an article in response to an article about rape published by the magazine. The original article was written by a female rape survivor, with the author's response taking the article to task for its perspectives on maleness and the relationship between maleness and rape. His article triggered a negative reaction that led the author to write a self-serving apology, which received an even more intense negative reaction. As a result of both reactions, and of considering the attitudes and motivations that led to his writing of both, the author says that he made important, transformative realizations about his attitudes and behaviors towards women.