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 like how on that rawstory thread that one person is asking owlslave if hes saying all women are liars, like the answer couldnt possibly be yes.
I have got a ginormous soft spot for Colin Baker.
Not Six, although I’ve still got fond memories of him. No, for Colin Baker the man.
He got royally screwed by the Beeb and the Powers That Was What Didn’t Like Sci-Fi, got spiked by a union strike, and his character wasn’t all that popular. Nevertheless, the man has been an unfailing booster of Doctor Who in the intervening years and apparently still has a wonderful relationship with Nicola Bryant and lots of other people from the show.
And his Big Finish audios polish Six’s rough corners a lot.
Ah, we should cherish the innocent, and protect them from the harsh realities for as long as possible.
Generally speaking, though, I’d like to protect people from having to interact with the Udder Fondler for as long as possible, no matter how naive and innocent they may be.
Night, all!
“Not even a manic-depressive Time Lord at the bottom of his cycle.”
Lol, I find 10’s depressed-ness more convincing — 11 just comes off as emo. Which really doesn’t work.
Then again, yeah, I am also biased by a wee David Tennant crush.
Night Falconer!
Forgive me is this nothing new, but I have this theory that the Doctor is basically Gandalf.
Both of them are wanderers, having no permanent home. Both of them possess knowledge that surpasses the average, and in many case above average, person. Both are far, far older than they appear. Both of them are often mistrusted by those they seek to help. Both of them are simultaneously warm and friendly, and mysterious and aloof. Both seek to thwart evil through subtle machinations. Both have the ability to inspire ordinary people to heights of accomplishment they didn’t know they were capable of. And both can lock and unlock doors using a magic wand (so to speak).
Also they both tend to sweep people up into wild adventures.
“Yer a wizard, doctar.”
Alright….NWOslave really needs to stop saying women women are stupid because he is a dumbshit. I clearly said men work at hooters as bussers, cooks, and managers…I really don’t appriciate being taken out of context like that.
Agree with everyone above…the concept of female privlages is so mine boggeling stupid that it really needs no reply!
“And both can lock and unlock doors using a magic wand (so to speak).”
Lol, can Gandalf “do wood”? (Omgs that is so going to be taken as sexual by the MRAs isn’t it?)
They’re both basically gods, though it tends to go poorly for the Doctor when he tries acting like one (actually, the only time he isn’t sorely punished for acting like a god is when he deus ex machina’s the Master’s plot in the year that never was [yeah I don’t care what deus ex machina means in general, it means god from machine in Latin, and that’s wtf 10 did there])
@NWO
I wrote: “When half of the population can physically overpower and rape you”
NWO wrote: “I realize rape is the holy grail of feminism but it isn’t a privilege. If rape was a privilege any man could rape any woman and society would nod it’s head and endorse it.”
Wut? That is nowhere near the point I was trying to make. Figures you twist it that way, you sick fuck. You are so fucking disgusting, I don’t even have the words.
I believe the door he used the holding spell on in Moria was made of wood, yes. Also, tee hee.
And yeah, in Gandalf’s case he’s quite literally a demigod. Or if you prefer, of the lower choirs of angels.
I generally like Smith’s portrayal of the Doctor better than Tennant’s. However, the storylines 10 got are, with a few exceptions going both ways, much better than 11’s. Also, 10 had Donna Noble. Donna Noble is objectively the best companion in New Who (haven’t seen enough Old to comment). Ergo, 10 is superior. Although I’m hoping for some character development once 11 gets new companions. Even though Donna will be better than those companions. Because Donna Noble is better than everyone.
Yeah I’m going to ignore NWO, and ponder who’d “win a fight” between Gandalf and the Doctor.
Which is, of course, a joke, they’d end up cracking jokes or exchanging stories or something…well, unless it was 11, which might be the main reason he annoys me, but I guess that’s the point? (Have I mentioned I love River? Because I love River, she scolds the Doctor!)
Clearly River is a misandrist (despite the whole “I’m looking for a good man” thing, which was yuck-tastic)
Yeah, Donna also scolded the Doctor. Rose saved 9, Martha saved 10, Donna saved 10 from himself. She might be the best companion so far (River doesn’t really count after all, and I’m wary of actually trusting her still)
And of course NWO chooses to ignore the fact that a disturbingly large portion of society DOES in fact nod its collective head and endorse rape, either tacitly or explicitly. Including himself.
…and I just remembered when Donna and River met, I really don’t think that episode could be worse/sadder. The more we see of River, the worse that episode gets.
I don’t like Donna that much, but only because ye gods is Catherine Tate a bad actress. In my opinion.
*cough*
http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#p_1_s_a0_All%20industries_United%20States_All%20states_
Take a quick glance at the skin colors displayed on that page, NWO.
“She might not be able to go home with a man of her choosing, but she can go home some man. A man doesn’t have that option to even go home with some woman.”
So this is from a while back, but can anyone explain to me why you would WANT to go home with someone that doesn’t appeal to you? I’ve seen this several times now and it’s just puzzling. Why would having sex with someone you weren’t attracted to in any way — physically, mentally, at all — be better than not having sex? And really, if you must subscribe to the “but men will fuck anything!” stereotype, why not just have sex with men? I mean, if you just want to stick it in someone and you don’t care if you find them attractive, it shouldn’t matter if you’re not gay.
Actually Donna was my favourite companion, The chemistry between Catherine Tate and David Tennant from their history of acting together on stage really shone through on the show. That and Donna was a much needed witty comic relief character after all of the bleakness and depression of the doctor STILL getting over Rose.
What this basically translates to is: “I won’t go home with someone I find unattractive, but I’ll pretend I can’t and you can so I can feel oppressed.”
“…the doctor STILL getting over Rose.”
That kind of makes sense — 9 had just genocided his own species, basically, when he met her. As 10 put it, Rose “made him better” — I don’t think he just meant that he loved her, I think he meant that she gave him some hope there was something worth living for…and then he lost her too.
Pompeii was the first episode I saw, and I still love Donna’s “don’t worry about us” line — she was the right mix of knowing what he needed to do, and making him do it. It’s a toss up between her and Rose for me though (I’m not counting River here, seeing how she doesn’t really travel with the Doctor) — the Bad Wolf is a bit too awesome to ignore, but Rose in general is way too “because I love him!” about things. (Of course, there’s also the Doctor-Donna, so yeah, maybe Donna does win)
Leeloo — as Dracula says, it seems to be a way to imply women have more options, even if they’re options no one would want.
Lol, I find 10′s depressed-ness more convincing — 11 just comes off as emo. Which really doesn’t work.
See, I felt the opposite: by the end of Tennant’s tenure, he feels incredibly whiny to me. Don’t get me wrong, he was my first Doctor and I will love him forever, but I think Smith does the better portrayal.
Matt Smith also doesn’t constantly have crushes on his companions or vice versa, which I also appreciate.
katz — 10’s whole “I can’t die” thing was very annoying, particularly seeing how he’d been going on about how time lords live too long like, 3 hours earlier, in universe (and more like half an hour earlier in run time).
And um…Amy totally had a thing for 11…I mean yeah, 11 didn’t return that, but “and you kissed her back” “no, I kissed her front!” (see, I’m not sure 11 is just playing a fool, since that was only likely to get him punched…)