https://theconversation.com/why-women-including-feminists-are-still-attracted-to-benevolently-sexist-men-101067

If a man offers to help a woman with her heavy suitcase or to parallel park her car, what should she make of the offer?

Is it an innocuous act of courtesy? Or is it a sexist insult to her strength and competence?

Social psychologists who describe this behavior as “benevolent sexism” firmly favor the latter view.

But researchers have also revealed a paradox: Women prefer men who behave in ways that could be described as benevolently sexist over those who don’t.

How could this be?

I can tell you how this could be. Women like situations where men give them things or do things for them, even if it might cause them problems down the line. Short term gain, ignore the potential long term pain.

Feminists say that benevolent sexism is the cause of the Patriarchy, and this shows just how deeply wrong they are: benevolent sexism also exists because women like it and want it. Women are as much perpetrators of this system as men are, and even feminists are down with it. They are part of the problem. And there is no conversation among feminists about their own contribution. Because they're attracted to men who behave like this and rule #1 of feminism is to defend women's irrational algorithms of attraction no matter what.

And so they happily undermine themselves...