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1. Figure out early in life that equality is RAD! Equality, BRAH!
2. Deign to enter into a conversation about the inequality women face.
3. Like, almost break something patting yourself on the back for it.
4. Encounter a woman saying something that rankles you.
5. Refuse to consider that it rankles you because you were raised to believe that everything you said, no matter how stupid, ill-thought out, or unfounded, must be considered with greater weight than the thoughts of a woman.
6. Start to clue into the fact that being a Cis Man doesn’t allow you to explain things to people about their own lives.
7. Think about this.
8. Get a little angry.
9. Think about it some more.
10. Get a little more angry.
11. HAVE A FAKE REVELATION: You are being silenced because of your gender.
12. ZOMG THATS WHAT THE FEMINISTS ARE AGAINST.
13. Realize that you are through the looking glass here people.
14. Read extensively about the concept of Male Privilege. 
15. Read the Spark Notes on the concept of Male Privilege.
16. Buy the laminated reference card to Male Privilege
17. Use it as a coaster.
18. Barge into a Feminist Space.
19. Proclaim loudly that you are having doubts about this whole Feminism thing.
20. Begin to Mansplain Feminism.
21. Meet opposition.
22. Begin to Mansplain the proper method of discourse and discussion. Start every paragraph with “What you don’t seem to realize…”
23. Become apoplectic that NO ONE IS THANKFUL THAT YOU ARE EDUCATING THEM.
24. Repeat several times.
25. Reject Feminism.

Going to spend the day reading, doing laundry, and reblogging myself.