Feminism has opened my eyes to many of the things I take for granted as a dude, a.k.a. male privilege. Manspreading is one of them:

Feminism has opened my eyes to many of the things I take for granted as a dude, a.k.a. male privilege. Manspreading is one of them:
Trigger/content warning: This post deals with Donald Trump’s descriptions of how he has sexually assaulted and harassed women, as well as with the responses of several prominent male evangelicals who are downplaying his remarks.
C. S. Lewis’ children’s novel The Magician’s Nephew tells of the earliest days of Narnia, a magical place made most famous by his earlier classic,The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. There is a term in The Magician’s Nephew which I have never seen used at any other time by anyone – until this presidential campaign.
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I’m a feminist. But I haven’t always been.
Through much of my life I’ve been, I think, a pretty nice guy – thoughtful, sensitive to others, empathetic. But a feminist I was not. Like just about every other man who grows up in a male-dominated culture, I was blind to so much of my male privilege.