So a fella on the Men’s Rights subreddit made this poster, which he’s planning to post in the vicinity of the Women’s Studies Department at his school, assuming he can find it.
Since I know that a lot of females read this blog, I thought I’d ask you all just which of these Unchecked Female Privileges (There’s Nothing “Benevolent” About Them) are your favorites. You can pick more than one! (I know how inherently greedy you feemales are.)
Has he missed any important ones?
Non-women are allowed to post in this thread as well, but only if they preface their comments with “If it may please the feemales, might I humbly suggest that … .”
Well, I have never been considered a pedophile when around kids, but none of the men I know have ever been considered a pedophile around kids either. I suspect if you don’t act really weird, or like a pedophile, around kids it won’t really come up for you either.
Also, as a feeeeeeeeeeeemale, I get to go to the doctor when I’m anxious, and the doctor will prescribe me some Cativan. (Note also a link to information about a serious medical condition, Sleep Catnea.)
I bet Michael Kimmel would be interested in meeting this Micheal Kimmel guy.
Fewer mental health issues or fewer diagnosed mental health issues? This is kind of a non-trivial distinction. I’m pretty sure that universal mental health screening would reveal that men and women have roughly equal instances of mental health issues.
“Less likely to drop out of college” is my favorite. What, you mean that you were willing to push through the initial stress that always comes with college and you didn’t just give up as soon as things got hard? That’s female privilege, that is.
Draft privilege? Bollocks, I have to put draft stoppers on all my doors.
He doesn’t mention the great female privilege: all women live in the US.
Oh, wait, we don’t … and from an Ozian perspective, that’s so not a privilege anyway.
“The Sisterhood”…of the travelling pants? Why is having to share my pants with my entire group of friends a privilege?
Clearly, the privilege of wearing push-up bras, which men cannot do without being ridiculed.
Also: MrB works as a substitute special ed classroom aide (he’s working all this week!), and the precautions he takes with kids are exactly the same as those my mother takes in her identical job. It has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with ensuring both children and parents are comfortable and that the school district is as legally covered as it is possible to be.
I am just posting OT cat-related cartoons. Cattoons?
Back on topic, I love the asterisked note that “There’s nothing benevolent about it.”
He’s almost right.
I’m gonna print this out and present it to my sociology class so we can all have a larf.
I love how it says that “less likely to commit suicide” is a female privilege.
I need to go debunk this soon, but only after I finish my homework.
That’s a female privilege, right? Being willing to work hard?
I saw “Not avoided by strangers of the other gender” and just… stopped. Oh, so we’re supposed to -like- being followed, catcalled, harassed, and generally feeling uncomfortable when strangers make our persons their business?
Sorry, must’ve missed the memo.
“Less likely to be killed in war” – fine, if you’re a USian, and not one of those volunteer soldiers. For the millions of people who live in war zones, nope. But civilian casualties plus Other (especially Brown) People obviously don’t exist for Mr Asswipe.
“Not avoided by strangers of the other gender” – yeah, because it’s not generally women attacking men, duh. Given men are responsible for most violence, and are overwhelmingly responsible for violence (rape in particular) against women, then colour me surprised that it’s not women who have men worried about their safety. Gobshite thinks being perceived as a non-threat and being the ones men see as public property, the ones to be punished for existing, is a privilege.
The “less likely to live in poverty” one is the funniest. Statistics, what are those?
If it may please the feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemales, might I humbly suggest that these are very qualitatively different to what are mostly cited as “male privileges”. Sure, there are a couple that are legit statistical points, but it once took a very long time to convince someone that “you’re homosexuality is a acceptable” isn’t the same thing by a long shot.
Oh man, I missed the “not avoided by strangers of the other gender” one!
Lucky for me, I’ve never really been subjected to street harassment, but still. Am I supposed to feel honored that if some asshole stalks me, catcalls me, harass me, sexually assaults me, and otherwise bother me?
He did NOT fucking go there.
There are 8 year old girls being married off to adult men and DYING ON THEIR WEDDING NIGHTS.
Oh, fuck you dude. Fuck you and YOUR privilege so very fucking much.
Just as a general thing, why shouldn’t people avoid strangers? I mean, I don’t, but in some cultures that’s the norm.
If it may please the feemales, might I humbly suggest that I like that he’s got “less [sic] workplace injuries,” “less workplace deaths,” and “safer working conditions” as three separate items. Sorry, four: he’s got “safer working conditions” twice.
Similar redindancies w/ regard to education.
Also “less productivity pressure” and “expected to choose easier career.” Which aside from being redundant are, uh, sort of WTF.
Also: “Punished less for changing your mind.” What is this even referring to?
Also, “less likely to live in poverty.” No, dude. Women are more likely to live in poverty.
http://www.globalpovertyproject.com/infobank/women
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminization_of_poverty
If it may please the feemales, might I humbly suggest that I got Ninjaed here on the poverty thing.
You may as well go ahead and assume all “points” made have to do with the US (and maybe Canada if they feel generous). Because the States is 1) the only place with women, and 2) it’s the only place with feminists, duh. Those pesky other countries are obviously just footnotes in The Grand Scheme of The World. Oh, and a source of docile brides, of course.
Ugh, the suicide one pisses me off so much. It’s not that women are really less likely to consider/attempt suicide; it’s that they’re less likely to successfully commit suicide.
I’m also pretty skeptical of the “less likely to experience dysmorphia” bit. Umm, CITATION NEEDED PLZKTHX.
If men are more likely to be depressed, have a mental illness, or abuse drugs and/or alcohol, then how is “less mental health referrals” a female privilege. I mean, if men are having more need of mental health services than women, then wouldn’t it be a good thing that men are getting more mental health referrals? And aren’t women more likely to be diagnosed depressed than men? (I don’t even know if men are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol and have more mental illnesses than women; there’s absolutely no sources for these little bullet points and you also run into the “diagnosed vs actually have” issue” that KathleenB brought up).
And I don’t understand how women’s longer average life expectancy is female privilege. They want women to all drop dead at 65 so men can, what, be able to brag about living longer?
Overall, though, I think my favorite feeeeeemale privilege is my greater likelihood of attending a university other than the University of Assfax and graduating with a degree other than one in Bullshitology.