Is It Sexist for Boyfriends to Be Protective?

Not necessarily.

Stark Raving
3 min readApr 29, 2021

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“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from,” — Mae West

I’m not gonna tell men not to be protective, because lovers should be protective of each other, regardless of gender. It’s just that the way men have been taught to be protective is infantilising and…

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