>having kids and the threat of potentially having kids
undermines female income on a regular basis
The only reason you see it this way is because of your previous point regarding women and children being a "package deal". There are societal expectations of men who have children.
>women tend to support their husband's career at the expense of their own career development
This is like saying "men tend to support their wives children at the expense of their own children". It's specialization and symbiosis. Women can benefit from "supporting" their husband's career. Ideally people support EACHOTHER in a relationship, and that includes tradeoffs in many areas of life, financial/career/societal/emotional/children.
>cis women can potentially get pregnant and cis men cannot
What a revelation. You're right, if only men could wrap their mind around this one then they might be able to fix all the issues that they maliciously create. /sarcasm
That's maybe half a step away from a personal attack. That's not "my opinion." That's how society tends to treat things and that observation is based on lots of reading of stuff with solid studies behind it.
This is like saying "men tend to support their wives children at the expense of their own children".
No, it's not. Not at all. For one thing, two people can be married and have their own children separately from a previous relationship.
if only men could wrap their mind around this one then they might be able to fix all the issues that they maliciously create.
Give me a break. This is not a position I am a proponent of. I rarely talk about the so-called "patriarchy." I do not advocate an idea that sexism is rooted in men being intentionally malicious assholes and I don't think I ever have.
This is not a good faith engagement of the point at all.
The fact that women can have babies tends to impact the lives of all women, whether they want babies or not. They get a lot of social expectations hung on them that are rooted in the idea of father as breadwinner and mother as full-time parent in part because that's a model that is more reliable than mother as breadwinner and father as full-time parent.
By reliable, I mean it tends to withstand things going wrong that you can statistically bet on happening in some percentage of cases. Pregnancy can really seriously impact a woman's body and health in a way that becoming a father doesn't do to a man's body.
As just one really minor example, she can be incontinent for a time after the birth and need to account for that, which is tougher to deal with if you have a paid job than if you are a homemaker.
The only reason you see it this way is because of your previous point regarding women and children being a "package deal". There are societal expectations of men who have children.
>women tend to support their husband's career at the expense of their own career development
This is like saying "men tend to support their wives children at the expense of their own children". It's specialization and symbiosis. Women can benefit from "supporting" their husband's career. Ideally people support EACHOTHER in a relationship, and that includes tradeoffs in many areas of life, financial/career/societal/emotional/children.
>cis women can potentially get pregnant and cis men cannot
What a revelation. You're right, if only men could wrap their mind around this one then they might be able to fix all the issues that they maliciously create. /sarcasm