My new favorite terrible Tumblr blog is this is female privilege, a blog that posts user-submitted examples of, well, female privilege. It’s a pretty MRA-adjacent idea for a blog, seemingly designed to be appreciated only by those who can use the word “misandry” without giggling. The woman who runs the blog seems to be fairly MRA-adjacent type herself; she recently responded to one critic with a sarcastic “Wow waahhhh it’s so hard to be a woman wahhhh!” (Literally; that’s an exact quote.)
So it’s hardly surprising that many of the posts seem to have been cut and pasted straight from the Men’s Rights subreddit – at least figuratively, if not literally. (Click on the pics to see the posts in context at this is female privilege.)
But a lot of the alleged privileges are a bit, well, odder than that. The blogger says she posts everything she gets, so either a lot of people have pretty cockeyed notions of just what privileges are, or some feminists are trolling her blog by sending along the dumbest non-privileges they can think of to make the blog even more ridiculous than it already is.
Some suggest that biological differences are “privileges.”
Some of the so-called “privileges” are the results of traditional gender roles that box both men and women in:
Dude, if you want to shave your body hair, shave your fucking body hair. There are lots of guys who shave or wax.
Some are comically delusional:
Chance this last one was submitted by a guy: 110%.
Some are just kind of whiny.
You know, there’s an easy solution to this: wait for a fucking stall, like women do.
Some are kind of weird:
And some are just, well, beyond hope:
Seriously, if you see these things as female privilege, you really, really shouldn’t be talking about privilege in public on the internet. You’re just making a fool of yourself.
The one redeeming thing about the blog: people argue back in the “notes.”
EDIT: Another redeeming thing: It’s inspired the response blog Actually This is Male Privilege.
EDIT 2: Amanda Marcotte riffs on the one about women having the wonderful privilege of sex any time they want!
http://thisisfemaleprivilege.tumblr.com/post/27069514112/female-privilege-is-boobs
I think this one is my favorite.
Polliwog: That’s beautiful. 😀
Being kicked in the crotch hurts pretty bad no matter what you’ve got going on down there, seriously.
Yeah, having been kicked in the crotch once, I can testify to the fact that my reaction was pretty much identical to the typical reaction of male movie characters, etc. to being kicked in the crotch. It’s not like vulvas are armor-plated or something; they’re just in a somewhat less-easily-kickable location.
In other news, this may be even better than BOOBS:
http://thisisfemaleprivilege.tumblr.com/post/27038230152/female-privilege-is-getting-to-vajazzle-your
Dudes, you are totally allowed to glue little spangly fake gemstones to your wangs if it makes you happy. I promise there is not a feminist conspiracy to keep you from dickjazzling.
Female privilege is SCENTED FUCKING CANDLES.
http://thisisfemaleprivilege.tumblr.com/post/27344560519/oh-my-god-biological-differences-between-men-and-women
Female privilege =/= social justice
Shoes made of paper that melt in mud puddles had never crossed my mind as a female privilege. Particularly when combined with whale bone corsets and forty pounds of garments.
I do not think that word, privilege, means what they think it means.
Male privilege is being able to pee standing up! So there!
It’s not like vulvas are armor-plated or something – Polliwog
I tried to think of something witty to say.. but all I could think of was this.
(That’s SFW btw 😛 ).
Women who do not conform to standard beauty expectations also face rejection and also find themselves going home alone after a night at the bar. SCIENCE (if you add that at the end it’s automatically proven).
Oh, and these assholes whining about women making more in the porn industry are such twits! As has been pointed out in previous threads: the overwhelmingly male-led industry that produces these videos makes far more than any of the actors do, including them women. Reminds me of Chris Rock’s routine about basketball players and how their millions in profits are dwarfed by the profits of the old white men who own the teams.
She elaborates:
I thought that ““Wow waahhhh it’s so hard to be a woman wahhhh!” was your characterization of her response. No. It’s her exact response, word for word.
So, how long before someone mentions the Titanic? I’m taking bets.
Polliwog: You don’t UNDERSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND, if I dickjazzle it’ll be weird and uncomfortable during sex!
… The obvious solution is to balljazzle.
I thought that
was your characterization of her response. No. It’s an exact quotation.
Would it be wrong to make some fake submissions? After dealing with Tom Martin and Steele, I feel that my moral compass no longer points to true north (or even magnetic north).
http://thisisfemaleprivilege.tumblr.com/post/27344560519/oh-my-god-biological-differences-between-men-and-women
“This is not a social justice blog.”
At least they admit it?
There’s a response tumblr called Actually This is Male Privilege: http://actuallythisismaleprivilege.tumblr.com
@cloudiah
We could edit some of NWOslave’s more bizarre rants and submit them. Or would that be wrong?
@creativewritingstudent Seriously, I don’t know any more. I’m going to go watch some kitten videos to try to reboot. 🙂
http://actuallythisismaleprivilege.tumblr.com/post/27333741572/actually
^ This one is kinda pertinent to me and one of my friends atm. I recently chopped a lot of my hair off and was worried that Mum would freak and say I looked like a ‘lesbian’. (You know, the disapproving-tone ‘lesbian’.) She didn’t, but when saying ‘I want to cut my hair short’, one of her responses was ‘you don’t want to look like a lesbian!’*. The other was ‘your partner might not approve, you’d have to check because you’d be upset if he cut his hair off.’**
My friend wants a ‘shaved part’ and her mother tells her it will make her look like a ‘lesbian’, and her mother also tells her that her chosen nickname is a ‘lesbian name’. (wat.)
* Seeing as I lack an identical gay twin, this would be impossible.
** I will admit I find his long hair extra sexy, but its his hair. Turns out he doesn’t care what I do with my hair as long as I keep dying it red.
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See, what I do when I want to look neat (being a long-haired guy) is… tie it back. It seems to suffice.
(Normally I’m too lazy to do that, and I probably get less comments and such for having scruffy uncombed hair than a woman would.)
didnt buttman used to get really worked up about urinals?
also, mens rooms still have stalls. if you dont want to use a urinal you dont have to.
So in fact urinals help even the men who don’t want to use them, because the queues will be shorter due to the men who are OK with using them doing so…