You're projecting your personal situation onto the canvas of general male benefit derived from sexism, and using it to say "not all men benefit", while missing the point insofar as the established differentials that are already in existence.
Yes, you're one male suffering from a pay differential, but your differential didn't come about due to a deliberate devaluing of female labour. The pay differentials that still exist between male and female salaries did come about because of that sort of institutionalised sexism.
BTW, writing "ain't" doesn't prove membership of the proletariat, comrade!
I do agree with the bit in bold and actually said in the bit you quoted in this post that the women I work with are not benefiting.
I also agree with the bit underlined.
I was not trying to use my situation to generalise in any way I was simply trying to show that things are no always so simplistic...to be honest I understand I poorly explained myself but I think that stating ;
"Men benefit from sexism in the sense that it means they end up privileged over women in equivalent situations.
They get paid more for doing the same jobs than women, they are allowed to do more things than women are etc etc. That is surely not controversial?"
is over simplified and my post was in response to that. It don't make me right it means I disagree.
I also wrote that I don't understand how my partner not being paid the same amount as men benefits me....not to score cheap points but because I genuinely don't ... this effects all men with a female partner in work...if pay was equal then they'd have a higher household income.
I think my life is easier in some ways because I ain't judged on how I looked in the same way women are, I don't have unwanted attention put upon me in the same way women, I don't get judged on my age in the same way etc.
I am considered to be a "good partner" cos I do the majority of the housework and child care yet women are simply expected to do these things and get little (if any) respect for it.
I do not fear sexual attack nor am I expected to shave my legs and arm pits, pluck my eye brows etc.
I think that in a majority of careers it is easier to progress if you are male and that many men are higher paid than men for equivalent work.
But I think that over simplifying things does not necessarily lead to the correct answers.
In my view men do not benefit from women being paid less ... it effects household incomes of millions of men who have female partners. If their female partners were equally paid, given equal chances of promotion, bonuses etc. then the men would benefit.
I could well be wrong...I may have explained myself poorly but I fail to see why me having and opinion leads people like Fridge Magnet start being so rude...it was like listening to some swp hack bending the stick.
As for me not needing to use the word "ain't"...that totally contradicts everythings ones mockney coach has taught me over the years in my private tuition sessions.
