renaissance poisson

My Australian experience pretty much aligns with this.

One thing working in a straight job for the last ten years has demonstrated to me tho' is that women's attitudes are a big part of what keeps sexism running the way it does. Few of those female co-workers would self-describe as feminist tho', in fact they are more likely to subscribe to notions of equal access without admitting a context of systemic discrimination.

Recently on feminist_sex there was a discussion about humbled_females, specifically that a valorisation of traditional gender roles seems to be happening in the BDSM community absent a context of what things were (are) really like for sexually subjugated women.

I think the issue is less pointy and obvious in vanilla circles, but it is still there in all sorts of ways (taking a man's name at marriage for example, or not making regular contributions to housework a condition of a relationship). And women are a big part of why it's still there - people must find some aspects of sexism rewarding on some level.