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!
Says a man who calls men he doesn’t like “manginas”.
Viscaria, that’s terrible! I’ve watched some of the older women in my family develop arthritis. Its a very nasty illness, particularly as its impaired or completely destroyed their ability to enjoy their favorite creative outlets. Its a condition that seems to run in my family, so I have a feeling there will come a day I can no longer embroider either. I can’t imagine what I will do then.
Aetheri, I prefer 10 too, best of the doctors in my opinion.
Ya gotta wonder, why is the anti-male aspects of society are always “actually” misogyny? Why not the other way around?
Seldom is the question asked, is our anti-male aspects misogynying?
I like 10 and 11 well enough, but nobody beats Tom Baker.
As a kid, I got laughed at for wanting to play with dolls. Fortunately, many years later, I discovered feminism and realized that I did not have to conform to the strictures of conventional masculinity. By then, however, I had outgrown dolls. Oh well. Now, my sons get to play with whatever the fuck they want. The end.
True (and cool) story, bro.
Viscaria, was it a pattern you were following from a magazine or one you developed yourself?
I love the comments by the MRAs on the Amanda Marcotte piece (well, not really). Of course they take a conversation about female privilege and turn it into “men are boycotting American women because you’re so icky.” One guy even says the only solution for the gender war is for the sexes to be permanently segregated. Yeah, these guys are part of a movement all right. 😉
When we were kids, my sister got this neat little computer game called “Barbie’s Magical Movie Studio” or something. Basically you could set up little paths for pre-baked animations to follow, and set up “scenes.” It was actually really cool, because it allowed you as a young kid to craft a masterpiece of characters blending seemlessly from one action to another, to tell a story in pixels and sparkles.
Needless to say, my dad told me that a boy shouldn’t be playing with such things. And, since I was young, I was shamed into believing him.
I’m pretty sure a similar thing happened with me finding an interest for crocheting. I never got passed making a giant tube of yarn because my young mind thought it was supposed to be a girl’s activity, and therefore not for me. -_-
Hmmm… ffffffFFFFEEEMALE PRIVILAGE!
(Incidentally, isn’t the term “privilage” rather than “privilages?” Somehow, and it may just be me, listing a number of things that happen to women but not to men in an effort to prove an institutional bias against men for being men strikes me as… unconvincing)
MY FACE IS CUT IN HALF AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Argenti Aertheri! You have shamed the House of Eleven! There must be RETRIBUTION! With cherry blossoms and flute music and everything!
If the Doctor is acting like a fool and the plot requires River to step in and save the universe, it is obviously because the Doctor has planned it to be so! Ten was a piker! You could see him manipulating his Xanatos Gambit! Eleven is so good at the Xanatos Gambit that you’d swear he wasn’t any good at all! BUT THAT’S JUST HOW GOOD HE IS!!
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@pillowinhell, it was a kit I bought. I don’t have the creativity to design my own embroidery patterns #^_^#. I just did a google search and found it on these here internets:
http://austintatiousofferings.ecrater.com/p/444444/rare-original-victorian-santa-cross
Falconer — that is basically my actual thoughts on 11 though…I honestly can’t tell if he’s a fool, or playing a fool to save everything, or if Matt Smith just sucks at acting…
So yes, you could tell that ten had a clue what the plan was, and I preferred that to this…soap opera of sci-fi. And yeah, I’m biased here, 10 was my favorite.
Dracula — I haven’t watched much old series, but I do love 4’s scarf. Saving the universe while trying not to trip! (Ok, maybe not, but that’s what my brain goes to every time that scarf comes up — “how does he even walk in it, forget all the running?!”)
Kirbywarp …why are you cut in half? Can you be fixed or have you gone and died on us, again?
Q to the effin’ FT.
Even though Matt Smith is an adorable giraffe playing at being a human, Tom Baker was so smooth you’d find yourself believing he wasn’t a giraffe at all.
@Argenti:
At least on my screen, my little -_- emote had one eye on one line, and the rest of the face on then next.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Now that’s just not on. Matt Smith is a wonderful actor. Didn’t you watch “The Doctor’s Wife”?
I think perhaps Moffat writes himself out of corners with timey-wimey a bit too much. I must admit I don’t find that it kills the suspense at all when I’m watching an episode for the first time.
Best thing about the scarf? He actually used that shit. Sometimes a rope, sometimes to wrap things in, sometimes to test what sort of things would be targeted when he and his friends were pinned down by an auto-targeting laser. I love it when what looks like a weakness is actual a strength.
“Now that’s just not on. Matt Smith is a wonderful actor. Didn’t you watch “The Doctor’s Wife”?”
Ok, yeah, I did, and that isn’t Moffat’s writing…maybe it is Moffat and not Smith. (I’d also buy that Matt Smith is actually always confused, because of Moffat’s writing.)
And idk on it not killing the suspense — usually it works well enough, but then…wtf was that last episode?! Took me a damned month to figure out how reality broke (we’ve had fixed points be altered before, 10 got reality handed to him painfully, but nothing broke)
I’m just sad that mr “Fantastic!” only got one season… It was the first season I had ever watched, and I was really digging the guy. (Nobody says “fantastic” quite like that man)
Then when I just got over that and got to really liking the next one, BOOM! Fish fingers and freaking custard. *sigh*
Whatever. Dr. Who is awesome.
“I love it when what looks like a weakness is actual a strength.”
11 — “got any celery?” — and suddenly 5’s celery makes sense!
Now, if 11 can find a use for a fez…then again…that last episode did include “anyone got a strip of cloth? (oh wait, I’m wearing a bow tie)”
Once, he made the villain trip over the scarf and fall to his death.
Then again, he used the scarf to trip the Master once.
I think it contributes to the anxiety of the Matrix sequence in “The Deadly Assassin” that Four is out of costume: no coat, no scarf, just shirt sleeves.
Wait, didn’t he spend that entire serial out of costume? Crud. There goes my textual analysis.
The fixed point in time came into direct confrontation with River Song. Nothing gets in the way of River and her sexy times. Nothing. Not even a manic-depressive Time Lord at the bottom of his cycle.
Eccelston was great. And really, I love both Tennant and Smith. My earlier comment may have made it seem like I thought they’re just okay, which is not the case.
I’m just hoping that I get my wish, and the next Doctor is played by Tamsin Grieg.
Oh my Viscaria! That is a beaUtiful stocking!!!
FELLOW WHOVIANS! *attacks with hugs*
I find Moffat’s writing kind of… eesh. On the one hand, he’s clever, and I LOVE clever. On the other hand, the character development kind of gets sacrificed to that. And he has some issues with female characters (cf. the differences between Season 5 and Season 6 Amy). I gotta say, I don’t love it as much as I did under Davies.
(I may also be nursing a teeny tiny crush on David Tennant that miiiight influence my opinion a touch.)