"Benevolent sexism is an ideology that perpetuates gender inequality"

The new enemy of woman is the gentleman:

Here’s the latest from the Psychology of Women Quarterly. It’s an abstract of an article by Kathleen Connelly and Martin Heesacker on benevolent sexism. If you’re wondering what “benevolent sexism” is, think gentlemanly behavior. I offer the abstract partly as a window onto the wonderful, wacky world of modern sociological prose and partly in despair at the use of the word “thus” to open the final sentence. I have put the key passages in bold.

Previous research suggests that benevolent sexism is an ideology that perpetuates gender inequality. But despite its negative consequences, benevolent sexism is a prevalent ideology that some even find attractive. To better understand why women and men alike might be motivated to adopt benevolent sexism, the current study tested system justification theory’s prediction that benevolent sexism might have a positive linkage to life satisfaction through increased diffuse system justification, or the sense that the status quo is fair. A structural equation model revealed that benevolent sexism was positively associated with diffuse system justification within a sample of 274 college women and 111 college men. Additionally, benevolent sexism was indirectly associated with life satisfaction for both women and men through diffuse system justification. In contrast, hostile sexism was not related to diffuse system justification or life satisfaction. The results imply that although benevolent sexism perpetuates inequality at the structural level, it might offer some benefits at the personal level. Thus, our findings reinforce the dangerous nature of benevolent sexism and emphasize the need for interventions to reduce its prevalence.

You, like me, perhaps thought that abortion, or more particularly the inability to have one, defined today's feminist.

You, like me, were wrong.

What defines today's feminist is a deep seated hatred for men, and what makes a man a man.

Which is why they embrace girly men and are doing their level best to emasculate real men.  Your choosing to be a gentleman is a choice they're abhorring.

Open a door for a woman, allow her to enter that doorway before you do, and men, you are practicing benevolent sexism and fostering inequality.  Next time you seat a woman before you take a seat, next time you gently slide that chair underneath her as you do so, know that you're perpetuating her subservience.

You misogynist.