Male Privilege vs. Female Privilege

What is “male privilege”?

Its a term invented by feminists, that says men have “privileges that women don’t”… Is this true? Its half-true, half-lie. Why? Because the way they come to this conclusion is by ignoring the female counterparts of these privileges. As I will show, every one of these “privileges” that men enjoy, have a female counterpart. For every “privilege” that men enjoy, women have 1 privilege that only women enjoy.

The biggest and most annoying part of these “male privileges” is that many of them are not even “privileges” in the first place, but a trap designed to enslave men to the system.

The truth is that society opresses both men and women, but does it in a sneaky way. It oppresses men and women in different ways. Jane feels “injustices” because she sees johnny getting all the apples, while she conveniently ignores that fact that SHE gets all the oranges . That way jane and johnny are in a constant state of mutual resentment. Johnny feels resentful that he can’t have any oranges, and on top of that, he has to listen Jane constantly complaing about she can’t have any apples… While he’s not allowed to complain. This is the inter-gender tension, and conflict, fueled by feminism.

Let’s go on with seeing “male privileges” one by one…

Rebuttal of Male Privilege 1:
The Male Privilege Checklist (or what feminists believe a man has)

 

I will color things for ease… With stereotypical sexist colors too

Red: The original claim for what “males” enjoy in the big male-privilege piece
Blue: My response and explanation of the thing
Reversal: What do women enjoy instead, reversing the male privilege on its head. Either showing how this particular “male privilege” actually is invented to serve women, or its as opressive to men as it is a privillege, or how there’s an opposite female equivalent

1. My odds of being hired for a job, when competing against female applicants, are probably skewed in my favor. The more prestigious the job, the larger the odds are skewed.

Yes, in a male job. Here’s the number one feminist problem. See they used the term “prestigious”? How do they decide what is prestigious? They go and find what the male jobs are, and decide to call these jobs the “prestigious jobs” Let me give you an example. If trying to become a teacher, you’re more likely to succeed if you’re a woman, if trying for a lawyer, you’re more likely to succeed as a man. What do feminists do here? Yes… They decide to declare “lawyers” a more prestigious job. And why? Are teachers not important? They are, but that would destroy the fallacy that society is this anti-woman conspiracy.

Reversal (for women): As a woman I am not expected to do risky jobs, in fact the safer and more comfortable a jobs is, the more likely it is that I will be preferred over men. And if the job involves children, communication or empathy, I am guaranteed to get the job over any man applying for the same job.

2. I can be confident that my co-workers won’t think I got my job because of my sex – even though that might be true.

Unless my coworkers are feminists, no? This is the most contradictory of the entire list. They say that I get the job because I am a man, but then say my coworkers won’t believe I got the job because I am a man, lol. What if my coworkers are feminists? Won’t they believe that I got the job because I am a man? Of course. No matter WHAT success in life you get, in whatever sphere you get it in, there will be people around you who will be jealous and try to find rationalizations why you succeeded. Contrary to feminist belief, this isn’t an anti-woman conspiracy, its a problem with insecurity. Insecure people will always find ways to blame your success on something other than your merit.

Reversal (for women): As a woman, I know that no man will go and file a discrimination suit against me, even though I did get the job because I am a woman. I can rest assured knowing that no men will be allowed to complain about my female privilege in this job, because men are expected to “shut up, and take it like a man”.

3. If I am never promoted, it’s not because of my sex.

Unless its a “feminine”, woman-dominated job, that involves children, empathy or is run by feminists, in which case I am guaranteed to never be promoted, specifically because I am a man.

4. If I fail in my job or career, I can feel sure this won’t be seen as a black mark against my entire sex’s capabilities.

Unless its a “feminine”, woman-dominated job, in which case, if I fail, it will be seen as proof that men can’t do these jobs, and men are dumb-doofuses who can’t do a traditionally feminine job.

5. I am far less likely to face sexual harassment at work than my female co-workers are.

Which is a side-effect of men being pressured by society to do all the courting and sexual advances.

By definition sexual-harassment is
–>UNWANTED romantic advances<–

Now here’s a FACT – there is NO way to know if an advance is unwanted ahead of time. This study for example showed that women are very unclear about whether they’re interested or disinterested. If you have a gut reaction to blame the men and say “Oh, those idiotic men can’t read interest” – you’re wrong. This study, and others like it, found that NOBODY can read what the heck women want. Women were no better at assessing if a woman was showing interest or disinterest to a man

So again, our society expect men to take all the dating risks. If a woman is interested, a man is expect to “man up” and make a move. Some men will make a move at the wrong time or in the wrong way. You’re saying women never make a wrong move? Of course women won’t fail at a thing they NEVER DO! You can’t fail at a job you don’t do. You can’t fail catastrophically at something you don’t do. Its simple… 1) Men are expected to do all the advances 2) Some men are less skilled 3) Some men do less skillfull advances

I know this isn’t as sexy as a theory that the world is out to piss off women on purpose, and that men act ackward around a woman on purpose, to piss her off and chase her away from work. I’m sorry, but truth usually isn’t as sexy as conspiracy theories are.

Reversal (for women): As a woman, I can be lazy and wait for men to do all the work in courting and advancing relationship and sexual encounters, and at the same time, I am allowed to complain when men do this job poorly (even though I myself never do this job).

6. If I do the same task as a woman, and if the measurement is at all subjective, chances are people will think I did a better job.

Yes, there is such a thing as subjective perception and stereotypes. And yes, some groups will be assumed to do a better job than others. But there is no magical thing where all men are assumed to be better at all jobs. That’s pure bullshit. Its the same as most of the first ones. If its a “feminine” job, a woman will be assumed to do it better. If its a masculine job, a man will be assumed to do it better.

7. If I’m a teen or adult, and if I can stay out of prison, my odds of being raped are relatively low.

Notice how they automatically try to delete an entire category of rape to make it seem like men have it easier? They have to delete/ignore the biggest category of rape (prison rape) in order to make women out to be the disadvantaged gender. Why doesn’t prison rape count? Oh wait, because men are the victims Let’s not count anything where men are victims REALITY CHECK: Both the average man and the average woman have astronomically low chances of being raped. Tripping over and dieing from walking a flight of stairs is much more common for example.

TRUTH IS – more men get raped than women do. And this is with official numbers (that only count REPORTED rapes). The official numbers don’t account for the fact that boys/men are discouraged by society to report when a woman rapes them. Even if we ignore this, as a man you’re twice as likely to get raped, and then have your rape be ignored oh, how fun

Reversal (for women): As a woman, I am 1) less likely to be raped than a man and 2) even if I do get raped, my rape actually counts, unlike when a man is raped, and it doesn’t count.

8. On average, I am taught to fear walking alone after dark in average public spaces much less than my female counterparts are.

Yes, a woman is protected and cared for, while a man is expected to “man-up” and “deal with it”. As a man i have 4-10 times higher chance of being robbed, beaten up, etc… etc… But nobody cares enough to warn me, because as a man I am expected to “take it” and “deal with it”

Reversal (for women): As a woman, I am 400-1000% less likely to be the victim of any form of violence, yet, all precautions are aimed at protecting me, not men.

9. If I choose not to have children, my masculinity will not be called into question.

Reversal (for women): As a woman, if I choose to be unemployed, not one will call my femininity into question.

10. If I have children but do not provide primary care for them, my masculinity will not be called into question.

Reversal (for women): As a woman, if I have children, but do not provide the financial support for them, my femininity will not be called into question.

11. If I have children and provide primary care for them, I’ll be praised for extraordinary parenting if I’m even marginally competent.

Reversal (for women): As a woman, if I have children, and work, I’ll be praised for this, even if I’m even marginally competent

12. If I have children and a career, no one will think I’m selfish for not staying at home.

13. If I seek political office, my relationship with my children, or who I hire to take care of them, will probably not be scrutinized by the press.

14. My elected representatives are mostly people of my own sex. The more prestigious and powerful the elected position, the more this is true.

15. When I ask to see “the person in charge,” odds are I will face a person of my own sex. The higher-up in the organization the person is, the surer I can be.

16. As a child, chances are I was encouraged to be more active and outgoing than my sisters.

17. As a child, I could choose from an almost infinite variety of children’s media featuring positive, active, non-stereotyped heroes of my own sex. I never had to look for it; male protagonists were (and are) the default.

18. As a child, chances are I got more teacher attention than girls who raised their hands just as often.

19. If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether or not it has sexist overtones.

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20. I can turn on the television or glance at the front page of the newspaper and see people of my own sex widely represented, every day, without exception.

Complete and utter bullshit. Look at the highest-rating programs on a daily basis, and see what gender they cater to.

This is only true if I am feminist. I will flip channels, and flip over the 10-female-catering shows, arrive at the ONE show that caters to men and go “see, media caters to men”. I will specifically only look at things that are male-dominated, and ignore female-dominated fields. In fact, I can actually look at all the ads that represent women as goddesses and term that to be oppression of women, but look at news stories involving men and term that privilege.

-> An ad that displays attractive women hurts unconventionally attractive women, because it makes them feel unworthy unless they look like the “goddess” on that ad. They are made to feel like they don’t deserve that high-status man unless they look like that woman.

-> A news story that displays an attractive man (high status man) hurts average-status men, because it makes them feel unworthy unless they have that status. They are made to feel like they don’t deserve that attractive woman, unless they have status like that man.

A feminist looks at these two situations, which are EXACT analogues of one another. One makes men feel insecure and gives them an unreachable standard, the other makes women insecure and gives them an unreachable standard. But feminist declare the male version privilege, and the female version opression…

21. If I’m careless with my financial affairs it won’t be attributed to my sex.

Really? So why is it that in all the media, sitcoms and movies, men are represented as buffons who can’t even buy the right thing or handle finances? Some 80% of purchasing decisions are made by women, because the assumption is that men are idiots, and women need to decide where the money goes.

How can you explain this fact? If supposedly women are assumed to suck at financial decisions, than why are women making 80% of the financial decisions? Its actually even higher with important decisions like buying houses where 90% of the decisions lie in women.

22. If I’m careless with my driving it won’t be attributed to my sex.

Really? Men pay higher premiums for car insurance, and the most popular type of insurance ad is the one presenting women as super-drivers, and men as idiot drivers.

23. I can speak in public to a large group without putting my sex on trial.

Huh?

24. Even if I sleep with a lot of women, there is no chance that I will be seriously labeled a “slut,” nor is there any male counterpart to “slut-bashing.”

This is basically a lie, and complete untruth/myth/fantasy. Men are constantly insulted, labeled evil and bashed if they sleep with many women. Refer to terms such as “sexaholic”, “lothario”, “womanizer”, “player”, “asshole”, “commitmentphobic”, “serial dater” etc… etc.

Male Perspective 1: As a man I will be ridiculed, made fun of and my sexuality will come into question if I am not going around sleeping with different women. This will be done by BOTH men and women. Women will assume there must be something wrong with me if I haven’t had a girlfriend in 2 years or can’t approach and charm any random woman.

Male Perspective 2: BUT if I do manage to overcome this, and become charming and successful with women, then men will bash me, call me an asshole, selfish, and jerk. I will be intermediately labeled manipulative, commitment-phobic, and assumed to be playing or manipulating women, regardless if this is true, simply because I sleep with a lot of women. Women will all try to settle me down and get me to commit, and if I refuse, I will be shamed and guilt ed and labeled selfish, or commitment-phobic… Unlike a woman in the same situation being simply termed “picky” and “having high standards”.

Reversal (For women): As a woman, I can just sit-around and do nothing in terms of my sexual and love life (like approaching, asking men out), and unlike with a man, no one will question my sexuality, in fact, they’ll allow me to vent and blame it on men being wusses and not approaching or courting me.

25. I do not have to worry about the message my wardrobe sends about my sexual availability or my gender conformity.

THAT IS BECAUSE WOMEN DO NO WORK IN THE COURTING DEPARTMENT… Sheesh, only a feminist can take a privilege and turn it into opression (by only seeing the side-effects of said privilege). The only reason that a woman has to worry about sending a wrong-message, is because that’s the only work women ever do. Men are expected to do all the courting, not send messages. You can’t fail at a job you don’t do! A man doesn’t have to worry about sending a wrong-message, because he is expected to do all the work, not send messages. A man has two choices, either court women, or remain alone for the rest of his life. A man doesn’t have the convenient choice of just sending messages, and waiting for women to do the work…

Male Perspective: I am expected to be a mind-reader and read subtle/indirect messages. If I read the message wrong, I will be criticized, shamed, insulted and rejected in a harsh manner (a lot of male suicides involve female rejection). This is especially ironic because all women are individuals, no two women send the same message in the exact same way. For one woman x means “I am interested”, for another women it means “i’m just friendly”, so I am expected to know what it means, and if I get it wrong, i will be severely punished.

Reversal (For women): As a woman, I have many more choices in obtaining a partner. Unlike a man, I can just sit around and wait for men to approach and court me… Or if I have the desire/confidence, I can court and approach them. I have two strategies, and deckuple the choice than an equal man does. With all things equal, a man who’s my exact equal, I will still get 50 times more dating offers. (not scientific number, and kind of  moderate actually)

26. My clothing is typically less expensive and better-constructed than women’s clothing for the same social status. While I have fewer options, my clothes will probably fit better than a woman’s without tailoring.

This is simply not true. Its not for the SAME status. Women get higher-status simply through clothing. Any woman can simply lose weight and get fancy clothes, and she immediatelly gains higher social/mating status than a man of equal characteristics. He is expected to court her, he is expect to impress her, he is expected to prove his worth to her, simply because she has fancy clothes. Between a man and a woman of the EXACT same attributes (education, looks, charm, skills), the woman with the fancy sexy female clothes has automatically higher status.

27. The grooming regimen expected of me is relatively cheap and consumes little time.

Reversal (For women): As a woman,  the amount of social power and leverage I gain by simple grooming is mind boggling. I get special courtesy, i get guys trying to impress me, I get free drinks and gifts, I get away not having to pay fines, I am immediately assumed to have higher social status than a man of equal-characteristics as me, simply because of the difference in grooming… Whereas man gain nothing by basic grooming except lack of criticism… and then they even get criticism if they do extra grooming.

28. If I buy a new car, chances are I’ll be offered a better price than a woman buying the same car.

Because women don’t negotiate. The only reason salesmen don’t offer a woman a better price is because they know they don’t have to. They know she will not negotiate. This is partly in fact because women are expected to (and do) spend another person’s money, which makes them less motivated to negotiate. It is also found in negotiating salaries. Women prefer social harmony over negotiating and demanding higher salary. You can find plenty of studies on the effect of testosterone on negotiating and hierarchy. Even among 2 women, the higher testosterone woman is more likely to win over in hierarchical battles or negotiations/conflict.

29. If I’m not conventionally attractive, the disadvantages are relatively small and easy to ignore.

This is another example of the invisible men. Average men are ignored and trampled over by society. Women completely ignore and don’t even PERCEIVE average men. They spend most of their time obsessing over attractive men, and then generalize the benefits enjoyed by attractive men on the entire gender. Please tell this claim to an ugly guy… I DARE YOU.

Heck, please tell this to an AVERAGE guy. Even an average looking woman has far more social and mating power and choice than an average man. Men who aren’t conventionally attractive (charismatic, fun, charming, interesting, confident) end up coldly brushed off and rejected by most women, and are forced and expected to impress, win over and prove themselves to women, racking up hundreds of brute rejections by women, which women rationalize away, while they obsess over analyzing the attractive guy, conveniently stepping over dozens of average man to get a chance with the attractive guy.

Reversal (For women): As a woman… If I am conventionally attractive I get an untold number of special privileges, benefits and choices over 99% of men. And even if i’m not conventionally attractive, even though I have MORE benefits than an average man, I actually get to complain because I don’t have all the privileges of an attractive woman or hyper-attractive man.

30. I can be loud with no fear of being called a shrew. I can be aggressive with no fear of being called a bitch.

Reversal (For women): As a woman, I can be loud with no fear of being called an asshole. I can be agressive with no fear of being called a jerk.

31. I can ask for legal protection from violence that happens mostly to men without being seen as a selfish special interest, since that kind of violence is called “crime” and is a general social concern. (Violence that happens mostly to women is usually called “domestic violence” or “acquaintance rape,” and is seen as a special interest issue.)

How insane is this? Complaining about 1) a privilege 2) a privilege that you yourself asked to be created. Before feminist lobbying, all violence was considered violence, i.e. any case of a person committing violence on another person was simply that, a crime of violence. Feminism then came in and asked that “violence against women” be prioritized and given special status, above violence in general.

Male Perspective: As a man, I am many-times more over likely to be a victim of violence, and 400% as likely to be murdered, yet most state/police resources go to tackle cases where women are victims… But hey, I’m just a he-creature, not worth protecting…

Reversal (For women): As a woman, I get both universal protection, in the form of protection from crime. And special “woman” protection, whereas men only get the first kind of protection, and even then, they get much less of it.

32. I can be confident that the ordinary language of day-to-day existence will always include my sex. “All men are created equal,” mailman, chairman, freshman, he.

Statistican-he? Psychologist-he? Nurse-he? Teacher-he? CEO-he? President-he? Senator-he? Lawyer-he? Doctor-he? Singer-he? Artist-he? Writer-he? Economist-he?  Proffesor-he?

This is another case of looking at male-opression, being blind to the male opression, and actually flipping it around to mean male-privilege. You will notice how most words containing a “he” at the end of it are risky, repetitive, low-status, low-paid jobs, and men are forced into these jobs. You’ll notice most of the high-status, high-paying, highly-respected jobs are gender neutral in their wording.

The reason they contain a “he” is because men are expected to do all the dirty work in society. But again, the typical feminist blindness… Who cares that men almost entirely represent the lowest paid jobs, and the deaths and injuries at work… We don’t want to acknowledge that because it directly contradicts our conspiracy theory. Let’s just ignore those men at the bottom…

33. My ability to make important decisions and my capability in general will never be questioned depending on what time of the month it is.

Maybe because… Hormones do actually make a difference?

Decision making is in fact influenced by hormones. Put a 100 people of the same gender (let’s say a 100 men), of the same iq, and everything else equal, but if they have different hormonal profiles, they will get different results in that test (plenty of such experiments). I’m sorry that biology contradicts feminist dogma, but this is a fact, changes in hormonal profiles, do change behaviour. Refer to “roid rage”. Its somewhat exaggerated, but people do act differently when injected with hormones. Female bodybuilders and sex-change patients (injecting hormones) report complete changes in taste, preferences, sexual attraction and behaviour.

1) FACT: Hormones do change/influence behaviour.
2) FACT: Men’s hormonal profile is stable, whereas women’s hormonal profile varies throughout the month.

What is that you exactly want here? Are you protesting nature? Do you want people to not notice facts?

34. I will never be expected to change my name upon marriage or questioned if I don’t change my name.

35. The decision to hire me will never be based on assumptions about whether or not I might choose to have a family sometime soon.

So what is it that you want? You want an employer to hire you at COST? I don’t get it? A business is not a charity. You hire people for what work they can do. You expect an employer to hire a person who won’t do work? What logic does it make for me to hire a person in january, if this person will be on a paid absense from work all the way from march to december. Seriously? You are asking for another privilege? You want employers to pay for your absense? Guess what, feminist organizations already won that privilege for women. Employers are not allowed to turn down pregnant women in many US states. That means that these employers end up paying for a person who never even shows up for work… How is that fair?

36. Every major religion in the world is led primarily by people of my own sex. Even God, in most major religions, is pictured as male.

So is every devil and evil person in these religions. Satan is also a man… But feminism conveniently leaves this out…

37. Most major religions argue that I should be the head of my household, while my wife and children should be subservient to me.

38. If I have a wife or live-in girlfriend, chances are we’ll divide up household chores so that she does most of the labor, and in particular the most repetitive and unrewarding tasks.

Lol, are you getting the pattern yet? Feminism is the art of ignoring male problems. It has faulty math. It ignores jobs done by men, only counts jobs done by women, and then concludes “women do most of the work”, lol If it wants to prove that women have less power, it simply counts male powers, while not counting female powers – simple

Reversal (For women): If I have a husband or live-in boyfriend, chances are we’ll divide up household chores so that he does most of the bread-winning labor, and in particular the most repetitive and unrewarding jobs so that he brings more money. And then I can complain by ignoring his sacrifices both outside the home and inside home. Feminists will do this for me, with studies where they only count “feminine home work” as work (cooking, cleaning etc), and completely leave out “masculine home work” that men do (fixing, repairing, heavywork, etc).

39. If I have children with a wife or girlfriend, chances are she’ll do most of the childrearing, and in particular the most dirty, repetitive and unrewarding parts of childrearing.

Reversal (For women): If I have children with a husband or boyfriend, chances are he’ll do most of the bread-winning even at the expense of loss of limb or life, and in particular the most dirty, repetitive and unrewarding parts of home-repair, upkeep.

40. If I have children with a wife or girlfriend, and it turns out that one of us needs to make career sacrifices to raise the kids, chances are we’ll both assume the career sacrificed should be hers.

Male Perspective: As a man, if I have children with a wife or girlfriend, I will be expected to make the sacrifice and ditch my lower-paying career (that I love) and get into a higher-paying career that I hate in order to be the breadwinner, even if it means killing myself at a dangerous/risky job.

41. Magazines, billboards, television, movies, pornography, and virtually all of media is filled with images of scantily-clad women intended to appeal to me sexually. Such images of men exist, but are rarer.

Only feminism can take a form of male oppression and label it “privilege”. All of these occurrences are aimed at controlling and manipulating men. The message to men is, “unless you own this product, you NEVER EVER will deserve the respect from the goddess on this advert, she is a goddess, and you’re a lowly, despicable male-creature that needs to impress her, and she’s high above you”

PROOF: There’s a study on how advertising using scantily-clad-women turns men into consumer baboons, in essence, there’s scientific proof that sexy-chick-laden advertising is used to control, oppress and manipulate men, not “cater” to them. The same research shows that scantily clad men do not have this effect on women (you can’t control women’s purchasing by showing scantily clad men).

42. In general, I am under much less pressure to be thin than my female counterparts are. If I am fat, I probably suffer fewer social and economic consequences for being fat than fat women do.

This is one of those double-edged swords. Many “privileges” actually both give power and take away power. Society gives thin women unprecedented powers over men. In fact, put one thin woman in a room with a 100 thin men, and she automatically has more social power than all these men. These men are expected to court her, impress her and prove their worth to her, simply because she is thin (and has good clothing). In fact, they’re automatically assumed to have lower social value, just because she is thin (and has good clothes).

Reversal (For women): If I am woman and manage to lose weight I immediately get amazing leverage and social and mating power over most men. Even if these men are equal to me in every single way, including thin-ness.

43. If I am heterosexual [man], it’s incredibly unlikely that I’ll ever be beaten up by a spouse or lover.

Notice how they specifically use the words “spouse or lover” and “heterosexual”. Do you wanna know why this is? 1) Because lesbian couples have the highest occurance of violence 2) Because most children are beaten up by their mother, not their father… And the only reason that a woman is more likely to end up the worse-off is because men are stronger physically. If both a man and a woman hit each other equal amount of times, a woman will have more injury. In order for men and women to have equal amount of injuries, it would require that men hit less and actually not defend themselves. Women are the first to initiate hitting and physical injury (70% of domestic violence starts with a woman initiating the first hit).

Reversal (For women): If I am heterosexual [woman], it’s incredibly unlikely that I’ll ever be beaten up by a spouse or lover, but even in the rare case if I do, i have special shelters ONLY provided for me, while the same shelters are not provided for men (even though men are the more hurt side as much as 20% of the time).

44. Complete strangers generally do not walk up to me on the street and tell me to “smile.”

FUNNY! You know why? THE VERY FIRST GIRL I EVER approached in my life, the very first words out of her mouths as I approached her was “You could smile more”… There goes that theory… POOF. In fact I have been told by women “smile”, in the past all the time… and men get it just as often as women.

Contrary to the conspiracy theory posed by feminism, its not a way to enslave someone, its something we say when we’re nervous to be talking to. Its a way to ease our own tension/anxiety. Now… Most of these cases of women telling me to smile were in social circles and women I am ALREADY talking to (I took the first initative and approached her). So yes, women and men do this equally. The only reason ONLY men do it as part of an approaching her on the street is… because (drumroll please) because WOMEN DO NOT APPROACH. Sheesh…

Only feminists can take a female-privilege, and turn into a male-privilege – Same thing as “sexual harassment”. The only reason some men do idiotic advances on women, is because men are expected to do all the risky advances, and some men are idiots/clumsy. Of course women don’t tell random men on the street to smile BECAUSE WOMENT DONT APPROACH RANDOM MEN ON THE STREET IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!! Sheesh, its so common sense. Women are allowed to be lazy and wait for men to make the first move… and then, they’re actually able to complain about the move if it isn’t perfect and fitting a romance novel.

Reversal (For women): As a (feminist) woman, I am able to tell men to smile, but if men tell ME that, I am able to complain about it, by finding the one situation where only men do it, even though the only reason men do it, is because I (and society) force them to do it (do all the approaching).

45. On average, I am not interrupted by women as often as women are interrupted by men.

46. I have the privilege of being unaware of my male privilege.

Reversal (For women): I have the privilege of being unaware of my female privilege.

FEMALE PRIVILEGES LIST 1

As a woman … (courtesy of feminist-critics)

1. I have a much lower chance of being murdered than a man.
2. I have a much lower chance of being driven to successfully commit suicide than a man.
3. I have a lower chance of being a victim of a violent assault than a man.
4. I have probably been taught that it is acceptable to cry.
5. I will probably live longer than the average man.
6. Most people in society probably will not see my overall worthiness as a person being exclusively tied to how high up in the hierarchy I rise.
7. I have a much better chance of being considered to be a worthy mate for someone, even if I’m unemployed with little money, than a man.
8. I am given much greater latitude to form close, intimate friendships than a man is.
9. My chance of suffering a work-related injury or illness is significantly lower than a man’s.
10. My chance of being killed on the job is a tiny fraction of a man’s.
11. If I shy away from fights, it is unlikely that this will damage my standing in my peer group or call into question my worthiness as a sex partner.
12. I am not generally expected to be capable of violence. If I lack this capacity, this will generally not be seen as a damning personal deficiency.
13. If I was born in North America since WWII, I can be almost certain that my genitals were not mutilated soon after birth, without anesthesia.
14. If I attempt to hug a friend in joy, it’s much less likely that my friend will wonder about my sexuality or pull away in unease.
15. If I seek a hug in solace from a close friend, I’ll have much less concern about how my friend will interpret the gesture or whether my worthiness as a member of my gender will be called into question.
16. I generally am not compelled by the rules of my sex to wear emotional armor in interactions with most people.
17. I am frequently the emotional center of my family.
18. I am allowed to wear clothes that signify ‘vulnerability’, ‘playful openness’, and ’softness’.
19. I am allowed to BE vulnerable, playful, and soft without calling my worthiness as a human being into question.
20. If I interact with other people’s children — particularly people I don’t know very well — I do not have to worry much about the interaction being misinterpreted.
21. If I have trouble accommodating to some aspects of gender demands, I have a much greater chance than a man does of having a sympathetic audience to discuss the unreasonableness of the demand, and a much lower chance that this failure to accommodate will be seen as signifying my fundamental inadequacy as a member of my gender.
22. I am less likely to be shamed for being sexually inactive than a man.
23. From my late teens through menopause, for most levels of sexual attractiveness, it is easier for me to find a sex partner at my attractiveness level than it is for a man.
24. My role in my child’s life is generally seen as more important than the child’s father’s role.

FEMALE PRIVILEGES LIST 2

Female Privilege List (courtesy of sweating through fog)
Privileges I have as a woman, that “others” – mostly men – don’t have.

1. I’m under less pressure than others to engage in risky, dangerous and unhealthy behaviors – one of the reasons I get to live longer than others do.
2. I can choose professions that are less lucrative, and not be called a loser.
3. If I don’t rise to the top of my profession, it’s OK – people won’t judge me the less for it.
4. I’m entitled to the benefits of a safe, orderly society, but no one expects me to risk my personal safety to maintain it.
5. I have the right to have the overwhelming majority of personal risk suffered in defense of my country handled by others.
6. I’m allowed to avoid violence, and even run from it, without the risk I’ll be laughed at.
7. If I see someone else in danger, I’m allowed to stop and think carefully about my personal risk before saving them, without my courage being called into question.
8. I have the right to avoid risky, dangerous challenges, and not be called a coward.
9. I’m allowed to cry as a child and tell my parents I’m scared of something – my parents won’t be disappointed with me.
10. I have the right to have most of the really dangerous professions handled by others.
11. If I commit a crime, I get less jail time than others would get for the exact same crime.
12. When I find myself with others in a terrifying, life-threatening situation, I have the right to be evacuated first, once the children are safe. Others can wait.
13. If I get slaughtered as part of some atrocity, people will be especially outraged and will call particular attention to the fact I was slaughtered. When others are slaughtered, it isn’t quite as upsetting.
14. I have the right to give my child up for adoption, and thus totally repudiate any personal and financial responsibilities I might otherwise have.
15. I can choose whether I want to be a parent or not, knowing that society will compel the other parent to meet their financial responsibilities – whether they want to or not.
16. If I am personally attacked, I expect otherwise safe, otherwise uninvolved people to come to my defense.
17. If I see someone else being attacked, I’m not expected to risk my own safety to defend them. It’s OK for me to wait for others to intervene, and it’s also OK for me to criticize others if they don’t.
18. In any dispute involving custody, I’m granted the presumption that I am the better, safer parent.
19. I have the right to interact with children not my own, and not have people look at me suspiciously.
20. If I choose to become a parent, people understand if I want to focus entirely on the personal, day-to-day care and nurturing of my children. Society expects my spouse to make enough money to make this choice possible.
21. I can get real nasty when someone makes me mad, and call them ugly, a loser, a nerd, a geek, a disgusting creep, a revolting little worm, a worthless piece of garbage, a scum bag, a wimp, a pervert, a jerk-off, an old fart, or a fat slob. After all, I have the right not to be treated meanly at work, and the right not to hear harsh things that might make me uncomfortable. I have legal recourse if that right is not respected, and I have the right to make this perfectly clear on my job interview.
22. I’m allowed to embrace and cultivate my spiritual qualities, and adopt a more elevated and more refined view of life – because other people handle all the “dirty work” like: yard work, garbage hauling, construction, fishing, mining, sewage disposal, street cleaning, long distance trucking, baggage handling, painting, sandblasting, and cement work.
23. If I fail at something, I can go to college and study the historical forces and social constructs that make it harder for people like me. If others fail, it’s because they just don’t have what it takes.
24. If I fail at almost everything, I can always teach college courses that explain why people like me fail a lot.

FEMALE PRIVILEGES LIST 3

Female privileges (courtesy of Women In Higher Education)

In contemplating the list with a colleague, we looked at the reverse, and created this list of 25 female privileges. Feel free to share, post, add to or comment on it, being careful to note the inspiration from Peggy McIntosh and Barry Deutsch.

1. I am physically able to give birth to another human being, and then do my best to mold her or him into the kind of person I choose.

2. I am not automatically expected to be the family breadwinner.

3. I feel free to wear a wide variety of clothes, from jeans to skimpy shorts to dresses as appropriate, without fear of ridicule.

4. I can choose to remain seated to meet most people.

5. I am not ashamed to ask for others’ perspectives on an issue.

6. I feel free to exhibit a wide range of emotions, from tears to genuine belly laughter, without being told to shut up.

7. My stereotypical excesses in shopping, clothes, jewelry, personal care and consumption of chocolate usually are expected, even the source of jokes.

8. Public policies generally offer me an opportunity to bond with my offspring.

9. I am among the first to get off a sinking ship.

10. I can usually find someone with superior strength to help me overcome physically challenging obstacles, such as changing a tire or cutting a huge Christmas tree.

11. Changing my mind is seen as a birthright or prerogative.

12. I feel free to explore alternate career paths instead of being bound to a single career ladder.

13. I am used to asking for help, around the kitchen table or the proverbial water cooler or the conference room.

14. People I’ve never met are inclined to hold doors open and give up their seats for me.

15. I can be proud of the skill I have worked to develop at stretching limited financial resources.

16. I am not ashamed of using alternatives to positional power to reach my goals.

17. I know how to put a new roll of toilet paper in use and am not above doing it for the next person.

18. I am not ashamed to admit that the decisions I make reflect my personal values.

19. I am not afraid to create and maintain honest relationships with others.

20. I do not fear being accused of having an ethic of care in my professional life.

21. When I enter an office, I am likely to encounter those who can help me “in low places.”

22. I am more likely to get hugs than handshakes, depending on the situation.

23. I am less likely to be seen as a threat, which allows me more subtle alternatives.

24. I can use men’s “sheer fear of tears” to my advantage.

25. I can complain that these female privileges are relatively minor compared with the vast assortment of dominant male privileges, but I wouldn’t change places for the world.

Continued here:

http://aleknovy.com/2010/05/01/male-privilege-vs-female-privilege-draft/

Resources:

http://aleknovy.com/2010/04/19/list-of-mens-opression/

http://thedamnedoldeman.com/?p=1444

The list of grievances that men endure:

-Women constitute 60% of college degrees, due to special grants, organizations, full scholarships, women only loans, all of which discriminate in favor of women and against men.
-Men represent 49% of the population, but are not considered a minority. Affirmative action has instead chosen to give women special privileges, even though they are the majority.
-Women are 50.3% of domestic violence perpetrators (-CDC and American Psychiatric Association); but, no shelters exist for battered men.
- Women are exempt from military draft; but are given their vote at 18, in full dereliction of the point of the 26th Amendment.
-Women are 20% of suicides, while men represent 80%; but, special counseling services are focused on female depression.
-Women are 15% of the homeless, while men represent 85%; but, shelters refuse to take in men, if there is a woman, who needs that room.
-unequal protections under the law (VAWA).
-Divorce is initiated 66% of the time by women; but, they are near guaranteed alimony and child custody. As well as being given half, if not more, of the total pocessions.
-While society crusades to protect women from harmless jokes, in the workplace, it has done nothing to protect men, by any measure, whom constitute 90% of all job deaths.
-Males were purposely discluded in the Federal Prohibition of Genital Mutilation Act of 1995.

http://aleknovy.com/2009/07/11/whats-up-with-these-douchebag-guys-getting-so-riled-up-with-feminism/

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Legal_Subjection_of_Men

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CclmbUYGx_Y

http://www.examiner.com/x-21681-Anaheim-Celebrity-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m10d9-James-Brody-Alledgedly-Attacked-by-Jayde-Nicole-2008-Playboy-Playmate

http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/tenmyths.php

http://www.feministcritics.org/blog/2008/06/08/female-privilege/

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100725111815AASuhGu

http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2009/11/battle-of-sexes-is-over-and-our-side.html

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=men+get+sentenced+for+the+exact+same+crime&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&cad=b