‘“Humanity is male,” Simone de Beauvoir once wrote 1, “and man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being.” When I first met my wife I never imagined that I would come to consider myself as an over-privileged, ignorant, and generally naïve person who has internalized society’s definition of my gender’s role, but through her patient explanation of the gravity of my seemingly harmless comments about women, my commitment to understand why I believed the things I did, and the amazing intellectual treasures that I have discovered when I opened up my heart and mind to feminist theory, I’ve found that feminism is essential to a man’s psychological health.”
Quite an interesting read!