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.