I love men like this. My father was like this. He always stood when a woman entered the room, always gave up his seat, always carried her bags.
There is nothing more attractive than a real man.
I went into a pub in Dublin tonight and every seat was taken, so I stood by the bar. A man sitting there got up and offered me his seat. I said, “Aww, no, you sit,” and he said, “Never.” So I sat.
Men do this. They always have. They give up seats, carry heavy things, and put themselves between women and danger. I don’t understand why this is so often dismissed or ignored in conversations about gender and equality and the framing is that men have always been oppressors. That simply isn’t true.