In my first year of university I was kinda stuck in it, but I made friends with this girl who was fairly feminist/woke. We argued constantly, so of course we eventually fell in love. I was in political science so I decided to try out some courses on Marxism as well as gender and politics. The cherry on top was when I got into political theory and started to understand how socially constructed our entire society is. That gf and I broke up at the start of my third year and 10 months later I was offered the chance to contribute to a feminist textbook chapter with my gender and politics prof... It's one of those things where, once you're exposed to its inner workings, it's practically impossible to go back to your prior ignorance.