You missed his point. He's thankful because it means he can have sex with that half. He's reminding you that he's a good, red-blooded American heterosexual male.
What I'm saying is that "I'm glad there are differences between men and women" is chauvinist code for "I'm straight". You're right that it's somewhat insidious the way chauvinists use the demonstrable sexual differences to somehow prove job performance differences. But I think your inference goes a little too far. Asserting heterosexuality is an important activity for many chauvinists because they are homophobic, not because they get off on putting women down. And why are they homophobic? For the same reason they're chauvinistic- they're small-minded creeps who feel protected by the status quo.
What about all the male police officers who are so fat they can't be bothered to get out of their car to respond to a call?
But let's just look at this logically. I am always hearing about this or that politician being in the hospital for heart problems. Therefore politics must increase heart problems. Men have more heart problems than women. If we replaced the male politicians with female ones fewer of them would be out for heart problems. So less absenteeism! Score!
(All logic above is bullshit, but it sounds good, I could be a pundit!)
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But let's just look at this logically. I am always hearing about this or that politician being in the hospital for heart problems. Therefore politics must increase heart problems. Men have more heart problems than women. If we replaced the male politicians with female ones fewer of them would be out for heart problems. So less absenteeism! Score!
(All logic above is bullshit, but it sounds good, I could be a pundit!)
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