.The male attitude that you did all the work and women contributed nothing to the family is untrue and it's what earned all you 'chivalrous' males the the sobriquet of chauvinist.
I never said women contributed nothing. For as long as humans have existed, women have played vital roles in our species. Everyone knows this. Most women knew it too and were happy with it, then feminism came along and told them that every role they play in society is a hoax contrived by the evil man who wants to keep them oppressed. It's total and utter trash.
You are right; men did work hard and they did provide for families and women did stay home raise children, support them, make the home a refuge and the family a strong unit. They also made the community a vital entity with hours of volunteer work in churches, granges, schools, charity groups, hospitals etc. But along about 1970 men decided unions were bad, quit, and let wages, pensions, health insurance, etc be set by management. Not surprisingly women had to work in order to maintain the family so they stayed in the middle class. Also not surprising since there were no unions to fight for fairness corporations got away with paying women less than men for the same work.
I don't know much about workplace and union history but I'll take your word for it. If this is true, it sounds like men made some bad economic mistakes which ultimately hurt both men and women. So this wasn't some intentional strategy to screw women over. You admit yourself that men had their hearts and intentions in the right place. They simply made a wrong technical decision. That doesn't even remotely suggest that men disrespected women or wanted to keep them down.
Corporations paying women less was an economic exploit. It had nothing to do with sexism. Corporations are all about the bottom line and if they can pay someone less money - be it a man or a woman - they will do it.
Be honest; "compliments about appearance" is not what women are now bringing forward.
Bullcrap - how many campaigns are we seeing with women complaining because the strange man on the bus kept looking at them, or made an innocent cat-call. Gillette's famous toxic masculinity campaign basically convinced women that any man who approaches a good-looking woman is being oppressive. It's utter trash. Women have completely demonized the concept of flattery and compliments.
Men did not invent abortion. Women have known which herbs and plants act as abortificient since the dawn of time.
Then go eat some plants next time you need to have an abortion. But the modern-day medical procedure of safely extracting a fetus from a woman's body was largely developed and legalized by men, for the sole purpose of liberating women. You're welcome.
The same is true of tampons; women have always known how to make them. Hieroglyphics in pyramids tell of women making tampons out of papyrus.
Yet I don't see any women doing this today. Instead, they're relying on mass-produced, safe, and comfortable tampons which men played a very large part in developing and commercializing for them. Again - you're welcome.
The pill was the idea of Margaret Sanger.
Not really. Sanger pushed for it but the medical research and testing of oral birth control was done mostly by men, and was underway even before Sanger. Brief research suggests Gregory Pincus and Carl Djerassi are responsible for most of the medical work in making it possible.
Even so, if you want to give all the credit to women, go ahead. The pill is infamous for destroying countless women's bodies and leading to many lawsuits of permanently affected women. It's almost as if women marched to their own detriment by pushing for the pill.
