I look back at how I acted in my teens and early 20s and am quite ashamed. I learned better as I gained life experience, dated, and got married. I am sure that most of my bad attitudes I picked up from how males I looked up to treated women. And it's not like I witnessed a lot of active sexual harassment...it was i guess I will call more passive things that add up. Like having a female friend at school and being asked if she's your girlfriend. Being a girl at something being used as an insult. Things that reduce women to being an object, or a lesser person. Now that I have a son, starting at an early age, I am making sure that I set a good example for him, first and foremost, so he models appropriate attitudes and behaviors. And calling out casual sexism when I see it. I might not always catch it but I will correct it when I can. That might make me "politically correct police", but I always figured that phrase was a deflection for people who wanted to be jerks to others.
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