FEATURE: Why a Japanese man proudly took his wife s last name
Shu Matsuo Post is a man who calls himself a feminist. But he wasn t born a feminist, and for the first 28 years of his life he never tried to understand what it was like to be a girl and a woman in a patriarchal society.
Then he met his now-wife Tina, who taught him that he has been socially conditioned to see things a certain way. She helped him realize he doesn t need to be macho to be a man or follow the dating script that says he pays. He had his feminist awakening.
Shu Matsuo Post calls himself a feminist, but he wasn't born one. For the first 28 years of his life, he says he never tried to understand what it was like