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!
they were wiped out for a while. which was why the whole cybus cybermen thing had to happen, because bringing them back required a new origin story
And now i’ve gotten myself sucked into looking through the wiki, damn time sinks! D:
Though reading through this stuff is probably the only way i’m going to be able to put meaningful info into the conversation, because I just don’t remember most of this stuff unless prompted. 😛
Pecunium, you remain a tedious, disingenuous jackass.
Urban professional = businessman, which I would have thought was obvious. I am attending graduate school while I work; this is not unusual. I am also something of a casual entrepreneur.
Incidentally, a project is looming at the workplace; I doubt I’ll have much time for Boobzland in the future.
Shade, I am deliberately avoiding looking at the wiki for exactly that reason. I generally like the show for character more than plot, so I don’t tend to retain the technobabbly stuff like exactly who did what dimensionally and how. It also means that inconsistencies and inadequate explanations don’t often bother me.
unless the project takes place at 1 in the morning i seriously doubt that
I am literally laughing out loud right now.
Also sort of amazed at your time management skills. It’s a good thing no woman ever once told you that you were bad at time management!
*loud, comically exaggerated sigh of relief*
“I am attending graduate school while I work; this is not unusual.”
…seriously? Because I know a bunch of grad students, most of them don’t have time for sleep, forget about a full time job and being a “casual entrepreneur” — have you invented time travel or something? Or do you just not study? (In which case, how long do you think that can last?)
Honestly I think the real explanation is that he thought “entrepreneur” meant the same thing as “executive.”
Shorter Steele – “I’m leaving because I’m soooo busy, not because I first had my ass handed to me and then made a complete fool of myself via my ridiculous conspiracy theories about Tom Martin being a feminist sleeper agent. Yep, that is definitely what is happening. Please stop pointing out the inconsistencies in my story, that’s misandry.”
if it’s part time b school then it’s totally possible. but of course that means he’s been trying to make people think he’s in an academic program when it’s really b school. which sounds super plausible, actually.
“Urban professional = businessman, which I would have thought was obvious. I am attending graduate school while I work; this is not unusual. I am also something of a casual entrepreneur.
Incidentally, a project is looming at the workplace; I doubt I’ll have much time for Boobzland in the future.”
Didn’t the last MRA loser who loved to sock-puppet, exactly like Steele, concoct something about being a Californian factory worker manfully working through disability?
Tell us Steele, what does one “casually” entrepreneur? Are you attending graduate school in Boston?
Steele Diddums: I see at a glance the refutation by others, but here, suck on a few lists:
http://www.thebest100lists.com/best100authors/
Best authors list, popular online vote, LOOK AT ALL DA WOMEN!
Except not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100_Best_Books_of_All_Time
List of 100 Best books of all time.
LOOK AT ALL DA WOMEN.
Except not.
http://thisrecording.com/today/2009/8/3/in-which-these-are-the-100-greatest-writers-of-all-time.html
100 great writers of all time: LOOK AT ALL DA WOMEN.
Except not.
http://100.best-poems.net/
100 best poems: ALL BY WOMEN.
Except not.
Finally: NYT BEST SELLERS LIST
http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/
There are women, but surprisingly NOT ALL BEST SELLERS ARE BY WOMEN.
If white men’s work isn’t considered artistic by society, WHY WHY WHY are so many men on the best 100 lists? Why are so many of the authors in the literary canon remember I teach English asshole DEAD WHTE MEN? Why do literary critics and academics tend to value men’s writing as more aesthetic, manly, etc.?
You are a complete and utter ignoramus, sitting in your corner sucking your thumb, and complaining about how oppressed you are.
I teach creative writing at the college level. The oldest student I’ve ever taught was 83 (senior citizen low tuition program). She’d never written anything except letters but she wanted to write a story of her life for her family. I have the bound copy sitting on my shelf at the office. She WROTE, and it was good.
If you don’t have the ovaries to write, don’t blame women, you puling pompous prickass.
Steele: Pecunium, you remain a tedious, disingenuous jackass.
The pedant, when correct, is often abused, the moreso when apt. Pedantry is often somewhat tedious. Disingenuous? No. I mean what I say. I may be casting snide aspersions on you, but I’m being quite forthright about it. Jackass? You may think so. I’d be surprised (given our history) if that was actually the limit of your disdain for me.
S’ok, I can bear the strain.
So, here’s the thing… and it goes back to your problems with English.
Saying, “I am in a graduate program” is a statement that one is full-engaged in it†, the moreso when one describes oneself as taking in out of discipline lectures casually.
“Urban professional” has a standard meaning of employee. It has a connotative meaning (you remember the difference between denotation and connotation, yes?) of someone who is striving to make it. Someone who is putting in long hours to work up the corporate ladder.
Businessman, on the other hand, implies that one is the owner of the business. Again, this tends to go with long hours (my folks own a business, the average work week for them is, when all is said and done, about 60 hours each).
Entrepreneur can be concommitant with businessman, but it also has implicative associations, those of having the money to start something experimental. No one is likely to refer to my folks as “entrepreneurs” for owning a bookstore. Nor is my father likely to be called one for establishing a non-profit to arrange for mediation services in cases of family law (my parents are divorced. My father and step-mother had a pretty nasty divorce. It was some years after that he started looking at mediation, and realised it might have helped them a lot, and saved both of them a fair bit of anguish and money, but I digress).
Now, it’s perfectly possible for one person to be all these things. Perhaps you are. What you aren’t is all that believable in the way you presented it. Given your poor track-record for credibility, well you might understand the level of dubiety on display.
†the notable exception to this being either an MBA program, or Law School, in the evenings. However, the former is pretty much a joke, and the latter requires both a level of dedication, and focus, which have been sadly not making much of an appearance in the various iterations of your appearance. See, for example, the list of times you were dropping in while not too busy at work.
Businessman? Factory worker? I thought all MRAs were angry firefighters also part of the National Guard.
@NWO
This really explains a lot about you.
lol omg wtf
No actually it’s not like I’m surprised.
The post above was a massive blockquote fail.
@NWO
This really explains a lot about you.
Success! 😀
“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.”
NWO, this is the funniest thing you have ever said. It’s even more detached from reality than your theory about the superdogs. Congratulations, you’ve reached the stage where you’ve been lying for so long that you now believe the lies yourself. That’s really not a good sign.
@ Tulgey, Your Steelepole parody made me laugh, so thanks. (It’s here, if you missed it.
NWOslave – Great post! Given female privilege, I think that many people confuse attacking ideas, words, and institutions that are misandrist as attacking women or “misogyny”. This obviously is not the case, and the fallacy should be pointed out.
By the way, NWO, I’d be interested in discussing in more detail your views on the MRM, misandry, and the like. Shoot me a line.
Oh, it’s rare to see passing MRAs talk with our resident trolls. So, Steele, speaking of ideas, what are your thoughts on wanking on little girls and do you feel assaulted when women are being sexy (aka not wearing a burqa) in your general direction?
The College of Business and Technology at my uni recently changed its name to the College of Business and ENTREPENEURSHIP!!!!
MBAs used to be pretty hot, but so many exist, and so many online.
And maybe not so useful these days: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505125_162-45040152/why-an-mba-is-a-waste-of-time-and-money/
ahahahaha
You think Tom Martin is so far over the edge he must be a feminist plant but then you start cozying up to NWO?