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It is a scientific fact that the mere sight of Ryan Gosling can inspire grown men to find sympathy for the feminist cause. But what does the man behind the chiselled pecs feel about the cause?

Gosling, who is the recent father to a baby girl, was asked just that question this weekend.

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“I mean, look, I have very strong female characters in my life,” he explains in the most recent issue of the Telegraph’s Sunday Style section. “I grew up with strong women and the amount of them grows exponentially as time goes on, in my world. And that’s my reality. So, I just tend to gravitate towards stories with strong female characters.”

Speaking about the series of Hey Girl memes featuring his face and the Feminist Ryan Gosling Tumblr, the Canadian actor shied away from credit.

“I didn’t make those [memes], you know? It’s not by design,” he said. “But I do have a little girl now and it’s important to me. These things are becoming… not more important to me, but more important in general, I think. There are lots of great women out there who I really admire: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, the Broad City girls [Abbi Abrams and Ilana Wexler], Lena Dunham and Kathryn Bigelow. I don’t know, it just seems like it’s happening.”