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!
@pecunium
“Why they got four awards, in ten years. That shows how doomed you would be; what with being a white dude and all.”
I’m not sure where you’re going with the entire shctick? Should we burn well written books by white men? Should we force people to read crap just because it wasn’t written by a white man? Steven King, possibly the greatest horror/sci fi writer of all time was a nobody, a poor mook. No one encouraged him, no one helped him. His white skin didn’t make him a great writer, it was his great writing.
A book is good if it’s good a book sucks if it sucks. I don’t really care who wrote it. No one should.
If you want to flog yourself for being a white man knock yourself out. Don’t include me in your racism, sexism and self hatred.
Also, does anyone remember the good old days when Steele was just a graduate student who attended free lectures when he could, before he became a successful entrepreneur and businessman?
I do, because it was last week.
Or maybe he is a successful entrepreneur who is getting a doctorate on the side, spending time with his grateful girlfriend, and still has 20-30 hourse free a week with nothing better to do than post on Manboobz. He is the last son of Krypton.
@Argenti Aertheri
“Speaking of Enchant, Chambermaid is basically the anti-thesis of the MRM isn’t it?”
Probably. However, I’ll pass at making some drugged out slut the center of my moral compass.
You have a moral compass? Would you like us to arrange to have it mended?
I think the Doctor considers the Cybermen to be already dead. They’re effectively zombies.
Yup. Which is why for some time now I’ve been assuming that everything that Torvus Steelbuttplug says is a lie, unless he offers checkable supporting evidence.
@Ugh
Give it a week, he’ll be the first. Of course he always wanted to be the hero that Gotham needs, but feminist misandry had sadly pushed him away from his life’s calling
Just to increase the sample size, I looked at the next stack over. Man, woman, man, woman, man, woman,woman, man, man, man, man.
Three of those are Terry Pratchett, and Google tells me the other male authors represented are also white, or at least have enough white ancestry to look white in pictures.
The way his morality seems to work, it can only possibly work the same way as the compass in PoC–pointing wherever you most want.
Beats the shit out a rage-fueled misogynistic hypocrite, as choices go.
@Wetherby
It’s just that Owly’s magnetic personality sends it a little wonky
Besides OWN, you do set your moral compass by so-called “sluts”. You’re always saying shit to effect of “If they’re not moral then why should I be?”
For fuck’s sake dude, that’s like, your whole thing.
Owly, you say no one encouraged Stephen King.
By his own story, Stephen King’s wife pulled the manuscript for Carrie out of the trash and encouraged him to believe in it.
Of course, since it was a woman giving this encouragement, you’re probably going to say she was bullying him and pushing him around. Asshole.
“Probably. However, I’ll pass at making some drugged out slut the center of my moral compass.”
Lol, that’s cute, you’re taking a woman who was wary of psych drugs because she doesn’t do drugs. So either you mean prescription drugs, or tea… (and she’s a vegan pacifist, you might want to reconsider that moral compass bit too)
Which brings us to Self-Medicate with Tea!
http://youtu.be/R4lbqmg4POg
“I think the Doctor considers the Cybermen to be already dead. They’re effectively zombies.”
Eh, possibly? It’d at least make it not the complete counter of 10’s “man who never would”, so sure, that must be it!
Steven King may not be the author you want to use if you’re a hardcore misogynist, given both his excellent relationship with his wife and his general attitude towards women. I’m just saying.
Steven King, possibly the greatest horror/sci fi writer of all time was a nobody, a poor mook. No one encouraged him, no one helped him. His white skin didn’t make him a great writer, it was his great writing.
From Stephen King’s On Writing:
“My wife made a crucial difference during those two years I spent teaching at Hampden (and washing sheets at the New Franklin Laundry during the summer vacation). If she had suggested that the time I spent writing stories on the front porch of our rented house on Pond Street or in the laundry room of our rented trailer on Klatt Road in Hermon was wasted time, I think a lot of the heart would have gone out of me. Tabby never voiced a single doubt, however. Her support was a constant, one of the few good things I could take as a given. And whenever I see a first novel dedicated to a wife (or a husband), I smile and think, There’s someone who knows.”
In the same book, King praises his wife’s writing, quoting a poem she wrote in college that was miles her classmates’ work and inspired him to push harder on his own writing. She also introduced him to feminism.
What bothers me is that in the Doctor’s Wife, everyone has so much fun with the TARDIS walking in woman’s body, but no seems to give a shit that the woman murdered to accomplish this.
And also, why the fuck are Cybus Systems Cybermen all over the place when they were all banished to the void between dimensions?
*walking around in a*
RE Slavey’s comment about Emilie Autumn, how much do we want to bet that he has at some point rage-wanked to the Suicide Girls?
I’m just going to assume it’s a given and try never to think of it again.
Dracula — yeah the Doctor is so busy getting mad about auntie and uncle that he completely ignores the woman now housing his tardis (which makes that whole “you call me sexy” exchange just a bit creepy). I don’t think they are Cybus cybers though, from what I know of old series, by the 51st century our dimension has cybers of its own.
Cassandra — now I know NWO can’t tell he difference, or just doesn’t care, but the “everybody thinks that I’m a fucking Suicide Girl” problem, well, that’s a direct quote from Thank God I’m Pretty, so clearly it annoys her. (Maybe that’s his problem though, she isn’t, and is rather vocal about her annoyance at being wank material)
Yeah, but they’re the same design as the Cybus ones, right down to the “C” symbol on their chest plates.
Now I’m trying to imagine what kind of women Slavey could wank to without feeling rage, and drawing a blank. It must be very uncomfortable living in his head.
Yeah, the narrative skips over that. Maybe there was something in Gaiman’s script that had to get cut.
OTOH, the Doctor didn’t do it or ask for it to be done, and he got House in the end. Does that count as justice when no one says specifically “this is for all those Time Lords, and the Corsair, and their TARDISes, and especially Aunt and Uncle and Brother and that poor woman, whomsoever she was, you stuck Sexy into!” ?
Didn’t the barriers between dimensions get all messed up at one point and let a bunch of stuff across it? Of course, they might have just recycled costumes for budget reasons.