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by hctaw 1955 days ago
The simple response to your whataboutism is that we're not talking about other fields like psychology or education or nursing. If you want to discuss sexist attitudes towards men in those fields be my guest, but it's a different conversation.

The less simple response is that cis white men haven't been systematically kept from participating in the full economy, unlike women and people of color until about a generation ago. Systemic sexism and racism were built up over centuries and have not been evacuated from society yet. When engaging in discussion about it it's impossible to look at the entire scope and walk away with concrete actions to reduce its impact, which is why productive discussion needs to hone in on specific issues or else we get in meaningless argument over semantics like "#women < #men == sexist" when it should be obvious that something is wrong there