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!
Falconer – I may have forgotten that line.
@Shaenon
“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).”
Men are normally very generous with their compliments towards women. Women are also very generous with their compliments towards women.
Do you just scan the page for certain names to hurl your invectives towards (eg., Pecunium, CassandraSays, Ozymandias) without having a fucking clue about the background material to which they are responding?
Or perhaps it would be more succinct to ask if you hurl your invectives without having a fucking clue.
I understand a few here and there may have slipped through the void, but an entire fleet? And at what point did they master space travel anyway? Loose ends, that’s all I’m saying.
Our dimension had cybers of our own by 1980. Seriously, that’s when “The Tenth Planet” is set.
Presumably the whole resemblance between the Cybus cybers and our own will be handwaved away with “dimensiony wensiony” if it ever comes up.
But I’m not going to worry about that. It would take parts of my brain that are already dedicated to pretending that whatever wiped the Cyber King out of Amy’s world along with the ducks out of the duck pond went ahead and wiped out the whole of “The Next Doctor” in ours so I won’t have to think about the Cyber King again.
I assume NWO has rage-wanked to every woman or girl who’s crossed his field of view not dressed like a Mennonite.
I don’t think there is one, specifically. The narrative seems to think that we’ll take the Doctor’s righteous anger at what happened to his fellow Time Lords as sufficient to cover all of the other outrages that House has committed.
“Of course, they might have just recycled costumes for budget reasons.”
That definitely happens, the sonic cane is also Churchill’s walking stick. As for the barriers between dimensions, I have a theory on that one, and where the plot is going, and the cause of the cracks, and let’s just say it isn’t good? To quote Amy “I hate being right” and am really hoping I’m not on this one. Gung juvpu xvyyrq gra vf jung pnhfrq gur penpxf, naq gurl’er rabhtu gb yrg gur gvzr ybeqf, naq rirelguvat ryfr, onpx guebhtu.
I think the cybers are just a costume recycling though.
Falconer — nephew, not brother, but in any case Doctor Who justice is often fairly questionable — think about how the Dickens plot ended, or the van Gogh one. So yeah, I’d say it’s justice, but just find it kind of weird he’s flirting with her like the body she’s in is just a pile of organs. Maybe it’s that he knows what House would’ve had to do to the human to steal the tardis matrix like that, but for all the time spent on the armpit smell, they’ve could stuck in one line of him being annoyed at that.
Idk, it is one of the best episodes with 11, and um…vs lbh pna whfg tb fgvpxvat pbafpvbhfarffrf vagb obqvrf, vf Evire npghnyyl qrnq?
Ah. In the meantime though, he basically just enjoys the ride. It’s morally ambiguous at best.
I think you’re spot on there. The show is by no means stuck in the tin-foil-and-cello-tape phase that it was for a while, it’s got more money than ever, but why spend money you don’t have to?
Maybe the Beeb was reluctant to open their wallets just for that. I’m pretty damn sure no one on the production staff has forgotten Cybus or the Battle of Canary Wharf.
Just — bam! — a Cybus cyber shows up and tries to eat Amy. There’s a visual that can’t be beat.
Re: the man who never would… I’ve been rewatching some of the 10 episodes recently, and I just the other day watched Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel. He killed all the local Cybermen by basically driving them insane with the horror of what had been done to them, and then sent Mickey and Jake off to do the same thing to all the other Cybermen in the world. I do not dispute the necessity of getting rid of them… but that’s a pretty freaking awful way to kill something. When they’re “real” Cybermen, they have no feelings and are, as pointed out, something like zombies. 11 blew them up. 10 made them human again in order to kill them. I’m sure he felt terrible about it.
“But I’m not going to worry about that. It would take parts of my brain that are already dedicated to pretending that whatever wiped the Cyber King out of Amy’s world along with the ducks out of the duck pond went ahead and wiped out the whole of “The Next Doctor” in ours so I won’t have to think about the Cyber King again.”
It did, he says as much, 11 has a line about a Cyber King walks all over London and no one notices!? Right around when he’s working out what the cracks are. (Of course, reversing the cracks means that was never erased, and thus happened, and more importantly — how did he deal with those angels?!)
V qvqa’g guvax fur vf. Qbaan jrag gb gur fvzhyngvba jvguva gur Yvoenel, naq fur pnzr onpx nyy evtug. V guvax Yvoenel/Sberfg vf bar bs gubfr rcvfbqrf jurer rirelobql yvirf. Gur bayl guvat vf, Evire qbrfa’g unir n zbegny obql ng gur zbzrag.
burgandy — ok, fair enough, but the fleet wasn’t really the threat that Cybus’s cybers were (of course, Cybus’s weren’t even in the dimension he’s usually fixing, so yeah…)
You’re right though, blowing them up is at least quick. I guess the man who never would part only applies to humans/things we fucked up?
Ok so I glanced at the Doctor Who wiki, and according to that it looks like the sequence of events was roughly:
– Cybers from the other dimension came across and had that big fight with the Daleks at Canary Wharf, then they all got sucked into the Void.
– Later on, the Daleks damage the barriers between realities, and that allows a small amount of Cybers to escape the Void (everything else in there died off) into some random time.
– They go around doing their thing, and they’re the origin of the space-faring Cybers.
@CassandraSays
“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.”
I’m neither a misogynist nor do I have a bad attitude towards women. Disagreement with a woman/women or policies lobbied for by women is common sense when those ideas or policies are completely flawed and vile. You’ve just become so accustomed to silence after so many decades of spewing hatred while remaining immune to any criticism.
Falconer — Gur zber jr frr bs Evire, gur zber V jnag gung gb or gur pnfr. V unir ab vqrn ubj ur’q ynaq ba gur cynarg gb ergevrir ure pbafpvbhfarff, ohg znlor gung pna or qbar sebz gur qbpgbe zbba be fbzrguvat. Vg pregnvayl jbhyqa’g or gur jbefg ergpbaavat gurl’ir qbar.
Shade — can I have the link for the second point there, please? Damaging the barrier between realities is kind of a big deal.
Are Cybermen ever not a threat?
But I don’t take “I never would” to be an expression of 100% pacifism. I look at it more in the context of vengeance/vindictiveness/malice. He’s talking to the man who just killed his daughter. I would never kill you just to get back at you. I would never kill you just because I hated you.
NWO: I’m not sure where you’re going with the entire shctick?
Nowhere.
I am saying that good books are good books, and there is no “feminist cabal” keeping white men from getting fame, fortune, reputation, and recognition for those good works.
Steele on the other hand, says that white men can’t get a break, that if he were to be a good writer (so far not in evidence), he’d be smothered by the gynocracy which controls culture.
That list (and the more popular writers I referred to earlier, you know the white dudes who are millionaires because of their writing), prove that he’s so clueless as to give you a run for the money.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Reality_bomb
It was when they stopped the Daleks using this to destroy all non-Dalek life, and in the process of asploding it, it damaged the barriers.
Ugh: 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. He’s ignored that aspect of my replies to him.
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.
No. He’s just very efficient.
Ugh… you forgot the part where he was an urban professional; before he became an entrepreneur.
Perfectly understandable that one would want some real world experience after grad school, before striking out on one’s own.
@Cliff Pervocracy
“I assume NWO has rage-wanked to every woman or girl who’s crossed his field of view not dressed like a Mennonite.”
Is there any other kind?
Shade — ah right, the reality bomb. Those episodes have so many unanswered questions (least of all being how Khan did wtf he did…”I fleeeeew” is awesome and all, but does not answer the important questions)
“Are Cybermen ever not a threat?” — when they’re trapped in another dimension? Or in deep space? Point noted that they’re right up there with Daleks and the weeping angels though.
“Perfectly understandable that one would want some real world experience after grad school, before striking out on one’s own.”
Lol, sure, but most people don’t manage to do it all in the same week (Steele, if you have a tardis, I want access!)