@Mr_NutterButter Yeah, the social benefits were there. I found it strange that it was more socially unacceptable to beat up a girl than to beat up a boy even out of self-defense. Hell, it was more acceptable for a girl to kick you in the balls than to beat up a girl. But that's because I later learned that men are in fact physically stronger than women, but TV (they were even trying to push the ideas of genders being equal back then) was trying to tell me otherwise.

I also noticed that girls had less responsibilities. Men were expected to hold the door open, men were expected to do outside chores, men were drafted into the military, etc. When I heard "be a gentlemen", all I heard was "do all the work so the ladies don't have to". It just always irked me that men had to do all this grunt work while women got to spend more time on hobbies, at least in my eyes.