Amina a Tunisian Woman Protested about Anti-Women policies and Anti-Women acts in Tunisia.

[Luminous Animal]

97. Benevolent sexism has nothing to do with any individual woman's preference.

It is a concept presented and studied that reveals that a woman, in the workplace that acquiesces to doors, lifting or carrying, doing simple tech... that is, giving way to a traditional man's "duties" may be putting herself at a disadvantage because she is inadvertently proving herself not up to personal responsibility and apt to be judged as less competent and thus not worthy of promotion or raise.

It is also a concept that reveals that a society or subculture that rates high on benevolent sexism is also high on malevolent sexism. That is, men in a society or subculture that deems women more fragile, more pure, more good and worthy of protection, will also more severely punish a woman for stepping out of that role. So, there is a dangerous component to benevolent sexism.

It's not merely a matter of door opening, despite the effort by some on DU to trivialize it as such. It is the infantilization of a thousand cuts