I absolutely love reading your answers. I feel so much better educated than when I left my house this morning. :-)

There's always a benefit to someone or the system wouldn't have lasted.

Don't get me wrong - I think sexism is terrible and the patriarchy sucks - but of course there were benefits to it (primarily to men, of course). Saying anything that major was completely one sided is far too simplistic a view to take of anything. Pointing out that a shitty situation had some not terrible aspects of…