Here’s a little screenshot apparently from 4chan’s /pol/ that’s been making the rounds on the internet; I found it in the Men’s Rights subreddit. THIS IS WHY LIFE IS SO DARN EASY FOR YOU LADIES!
Wow, I didn’t even know about most of these! (Ok, I lied. I’ve seen MRAs and MGTOWs and their ilk complaining about pretty much all of these, er, facts before.)
So, ladies, which of these FEMALE PRIVILEGES are your favorites? I think I like the one about voting without having to face any “national consequences” best. Apparently all women live in different countries than the ones they vote in? WHO KNEW?
@Alan
Oh, you absolute card, you! You’ve won my heart over with your roguish, yet cerebral humor.
@Francesca
I don’t really like pain, I just like the aesthetic and the “crack” sound people can make with it without actually touching me.
…
Assuming I’ve ever done anything so depraved.
re: instruments of perverse pain
I’ll find out what fits me best when I’m an adult with something resembling disposable income…and a significant other who’s into it.
For now, I sit and watch.
@ Lea: Rape is never about sex. It is always about power.
IMO, that argument is as incomplete as the one that says it’s all about men not being able to control themselves. If you amend it to, “Rape is never just about sex,” I’ll agree — but I think there is a strong arousal component to rape for a lot of rapists. It’s not just that they want to subjugate a woman and put her “in her place”, it’s that they get off on doing so, on being able to hurt and terrify a woman. These are the guys who rent torture/humiliation porn.
And I don’t believe it’s curable. That’s why I support life sentences without parole for rapists, and would support the death penalty if the system we have now weren’t so horribly flawed. As long as these guys live, they will be a danger to any woman who catches their attention.
@ dreemr: When you’re accustomed to special privilege, equality feels like oppression.
@ AthVeg34F: I am firmly of the opinion that the sentence for a conviction on any type of attempt to interfere with the voting process, or to suppress other people’s right to vote, should be the permanent loss of franchise for the perpetrator. You try to take that away from other people, you lose it yourself. However, I also suspect that this is unconstitutional and could never be implemented. That doesn’t make me stop wanting it.
@Sandra
Look, I’m a slut and all, but 20% of the US is a bit much even for me.
@Fran
Depends heavily on the whip or paddle in question, IME.
@Sister Bat’leth
All convicted felons already lose their voting rights, permanently, in the United States. Since most felons are black people due to racist laws and racist enforcement of laws, this acts as a means of restricting voting rights.
Only taking voting rights away from people who are convicted of voter fraud or voter suppression is a direct improvement.
@Dalillama
Fair point. Plus in retrospect, only a certain percentage of the US are adults, so…I said something squicky without meaning to.
Not off topic, if you can believe that!
migtows and red pillers are always complaining about how men do all the dangerous jobs, right? Why don’t women do more?
Well, looks like people in America have women to thank for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration!
Lets see if that link worka. Should go to a buzzfeed article called ‘The Forgotten Story Of The Radium Girls, Whose Deaths Saved Thousands Of Workers’ Lives’.
Horrifying read, but also very interesting.
For the record, people who are convicted of a felony do not automatically lose their right to vote — it depends on the state. In most states, you can’t vote while you’re in prison. In some states there’s a mechanism you have to go through for getting your right to vote back. In my home state of NH, the state constitution specifies that you can only have your right to vote taken away permanently if you are convicted of treason, bribery of a public official, or violation of election laws. (I am — or was — a convicted felon, so it mattered to me. But I was pardoned by President Carter.)
There’s no question, hiowever, that non-white people are disproportionately disenfranchised by criminal convictions.
@Sandra
77% of the US population are adults, so you’re ok there.
@Dalillama
Yay! Facts save the day again!
I’m pretty sure it’s not possible for one woman to have sex with 64 million people. I know I’d freak the fuck out if I had to fuck that many people in my lifetime.
Women don’t go to prison? We do — and sometimes it’s for the “crime” of defending ourselves against batterers, mostly men.
Fact Sheet on Battered Women in Prison
There’s more here:
http://www.purpleberets.org/pdf/bat_women_prison.pdf
Okay, the one about persecuting men who wear what we don’t like — that one’s fair. Admit it, ladies.
There’s nothing I enjoy more than having a cop arrest a man who’s wearing black socks and brown shoes.
A blue tie with a brown suit.
Argyle socks (this one is just a pet peeve).
If I’m feeling particularly energetic, I make a citizens’ arrest.
Many, many men languish behind bars because I called them on their poor fashion sense.
I have no regrets. They brought it on themselves.
The worst thing about this post is its lies are so lazy. Seriously dude, women can’t be imprisoned? Really? Is that your best work? I don’t think it’s your best work.
@Tosca
I think it’s his best work.
Rape does have an arousal component, but studies still tend to show that rapists get more pleasure out of consensual sex with an enthusiastic partner. They still want that feeling of power and adrenaline rush though, even if it’s less pleasurable.
Easy? You think it’s easy to lounge in bed like that with a full glass of juice and bottle of milk on a tray, and not knock it over and spill it?
What’s Trump’s downtime between golf rounds got to do with anything?
1> False.
2> Because of male politicians and judges, and directly against the wishes of various feminist activists and organizations.
3> False.
4> False, both in terms of “murdering children” (women, like men, are forbidden from doing that) and of “abortion” (men also have the right to their own bodily autonomy – including being able to choose to abort their own pregnancies – but not the right to others’ bodily autonomy).
5> False equivalency (being able to wear sexy clothes without being called a “slut” =/= being able to wear offensive clothes without receiving any critique whatsoever).
6> False. (In most divorces, the couple decides who gets custody, and it’s usually the mother; in the relatively few divorces that are decided by a court, it’s at LEAST a 50/50 between fathers and mothers).
7> False (alimony is decided by income, and is gender-neutral, not women-specific).
8> False (“Only yes is a yes” =/= “I can turn a past yes into a no”).
Weeeeeaaaaak.
They always leave sex work out of their calculations, of course.
Good biscuits, they’re not still going on about “shirtgate”, are they?
They never shut up about anything. I watched an Anita Sarkeesian video on youtube earlier today, and one of its recommendations for the next video to watch was a Mundane Matt rant about her, which he had uploaded that day.
And sometimes rape is about having such a banal disregard for the desires and feelings of women that they violate boundaries and consent without even being malicious. I think it’s important to keep in mind that our society makes rapists out of “normal” men by teaching misogyny at a young age.
Sister Bat’leth of Rational Discussion,
While you have a valid point, one thing you wrote struck me as too broad a stroke.
There are people, like Greta Christina who are feminists who write and get off on humiliation porn. That makes them kinky, not rapists.
Me? I love horror. I am entertained by some truly disturbing make-believe shit. However, when I try to watch a video of a bike wreck or parcor gone wrong that someone shares, it physically hurts me. I can’t do it. Movie gore? Neat. Photos of medical stuff or real accidents? Very hard for me to handle. I’ve tried to push my boundries. It’s a thing that is in my way professionally. There are things you need to be able to do to help people and animals that “hurt” them and are gorey. I can’t do those things.
I’d be the world’s shittiest EMT.
I have a phlebotomy class coming up and it is going to be tough. I will probably cry the first time I have to poke another student. I almost passed out in a simple veterinary surgery once.
I think kink is like that. Fun for people to play at who wouldn’t find the reality fun at all.
That doesn’t mean actual sadists don’t also enjoy that same media and that they are not out there in the kink (and horror fan) community being awful or that kinky (or horror) stuff isn’t problematic or beyond criticism.
Maybe none of that needed to be said, but … just in case.
Apparently, we women can’t be sent to prison, according to this genius.
Time for a good old-fashioned murder spree!
I do actually vote in one country and live in another and I a woman, so… But given that I have tax liability and the country I vote in is the US, I think I do still have to live with the consequences.