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!
“I can’t yet rule out misandrist-feminist vile tricks- Futrelle altering the post, screenshot, hacking, etc.”
You don’t think our permanent resident troll would know if that was the case and would have been screaming all over the internet if that was the case?
What do you even mean by screenshot, Cliff gave you a direct link?
he’s making shit up because all he knows is excuses. it’s a side effect of being a fucking coward
Sure, I hate my brother, my father, my boyfriend, my twenty-ish male cousin, all of my male friends, my formers crushes, the guys I play RPGs with, 3/4 of my current classmates and teachers, the male SF authors that fills my shelves, all the male Manboobzers, I hate half of the people I met. Right. And you that because… Just like most people who speak english, I don’t thing misandry is a real thing? You’re a genuis.
Hahaha, wow, these are some next-level denial powers.
If David hasn’t edited any of your words, or in fact anyone’s words ever except occasionally to remove really horrible things, what makes you think that’s a thing he does?
Not sure what you mean by “screenshot,” that’s a direct link. The whole page is full of NWO saying this stuff.
But even if you talk directly to NWO, how will you know it’s him, and not David hacking it’s account? If you meet him in the flesh and he says racists shit, maybe he’s still a robot with small feminists controlling him from the inside!!!
No, I don’t. I made a very clear post about this uesterday on another thread. You conveniently ignored it.
Maybe David David edited all of Steele’s posts and he’s actually a very likable and honest person? Damn you, David Futrelle!!11!!
david also secretly ran antimanboobz, just to preemptive discredit mikey
we just cant see it because we belieeeeve people, which is the stupidest thing ever, unless the people you believe rant about the jews and vaccines
I can’t be “explicitly anti-male,” or “public about this,” because I challenge you to find any quote anywhere where a Manboobzer has said “I hate men” or “men are worth less than women.”
Disagreeing with all of your theories about men does not mean hating men.
I’ll say it right now: I think men are pretty much the same as women. They’ve had different social conditioning, is all. But most men are pretty decent people. In general I don’t think any differently about men than I do about humans.
However I don’t believe men are an oppressed class. Don’t hate them, just don’t think they’re oppressed, and think it’s funny and mockable when they use weaksauce arguments like “a female teacher stopped me from writing, so now I’m only a rich executive/entrepreneur, woe is me!” to prove their oppression.
“I think men are pretty much the same as women.”
You monster. Stop being so mean with men
Okay, Steele, tell me how David faked up NWOslave’s comments on another site:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/NWOslave?action=comments
Some choice quotes:
(2nd page)
(3rd page)
Unfortunately I could only find misogyny in a brief scan, not anti-Semitism, so I hope you’re able to recognize those statements as misogynist and not just “anti-misandrist,” but I think even you can connect the dots here.
And those comments on HuffPo go back months and there’s hundreds of them, so if you’re going to claim David just registered as NWOslave to discredit him, you’re assuming he’s put a lot of work into it.
Time for plan 2: “No True MRA,” Steelepole.
“I hope you’re able to recognize those statements as misogynist and not just “anti-misandrist,” but I think even you can connect the dots here.”
Wouldn’t count on that if I were you, Cliff.
I’m pretty sure Steele Buttpole will agree with NWO’s sentiments about women, Cliff.
SteeleTroll: you can twist a reasonable man’s words to mean such things.
*spits water over the monitor*
Dude, YOU CAN READ.
Go to any post/thread you wish, and look for his nym: control+F and type in his nym and see what he wrote.
But laughing my ass off at the “Tom Martin is a feminist plant” and “NWO is reasonable man whose posts (what is it David, over 3000 of them) have been altered by David”–I mean, really!
Any self identified MRA who doesn’t fit your little list is a feminist plant, or a fake????????????
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHA.
Well, there must be a lot of fakes over on The Spearhead, then.
Regardless of NWOslave’s views- a fringe of kooks does not represent the MRM.
Hey, are we moving the Doctor Who derail over here?
Wait, I thought NWOslave was a reasonable man whose words were twisted but us misandrist-feminists?
just once admit you said a stupid thing, duder
Wait, forgot which thread I was on. Guess the derail hasn’t move after all!
@snowy
no, the goalposts moved
If Slavey was a Dalek that would explain so much. No wonder he’s so unfamiliar with and confused by human dating patterns.
When the “fringe” constitutes 80 % of a movement, it does.
Wouldn’t that just be like, everything Steelebutthorn has ever said?