When I was only six or seven, a boy kept trying to look up and my school skirt and was lifting it.
I told him to stop. He did it again.
I told him to stop. He laughed and did it again.
So I kicked him and ran away.
I was dragged down to the principle’s office, my mum was called in and I was in trouble. They said my behaviour was inappropriate and unacceptable. They told my mum to punish me. She refused and took me home. “If I had been you.” She said. “I wouldn’t have warned him.”
This boy continued to shove me against walls and try and kiss me regularly for the next few years and got away with it. If I defended myself, I was misbehaving. Male privilege is taking liberties with a girl’s body and her being punished for defending herself.
Male privilege is your parents and friends treating you like a champion for finally “getting the girl”, and treating your sister like a slut for “f*cking some guy”.
male privilege is not being ridiculed by guys when you say you’re a gamer.
it is not fearing telling your guild mates that you are female because of the following.
it is not fearing that any mistake in a game is reduced to you being female.
it is not hearing others say they wouldn’t ever let someone of your gender even touch their/any computer.
it is not not wanting to join teamspeak because anything you’ll say will be laughed at because “i can’t take you seriously with that voice”
Male privilege is, while still getting shit for being fat, you are not demonized and dehumanized to the degree that women are.
Male privilege is having your “clothing style” be accepted on all genders (for the most part).
Mod note: This is an interesting submission (and I’m sorry for breaking up your lovely submission into parts because I feel like these are all nice standing alone).
In shopping for clothing, often me and my friends don’t get a second look for shopping in the men’s section. In the one instance where I had a male friend buy women’s clothing, it was like a night and day difference in experience.
Male privilege is having your transition understood. It’s almost like people realize that men have it better than women in society and they can understand why you “would want to be one”.
Male privilege is not having to deal with period pains.
Wow. Can we not?
I have stated in a previous submission that biological functions are not male privilege. And again, this submission is very cissexist.
Not all women have uteruses.
Don’t make me actually have to make a page about this and stick in on the blog.
EDIT: To be honest I’ve been waiting for this submission because it always comes up in feminist circles.
Male privilege is being taken more seriously in discussions about women’s rights than the women themselves.
By Her Own Hand
Male privilege is being able to castrate yourself without dying in the process.
I’m not sure where you were going with this submission, but not all men have testicles and not all women have vaginas. I will say it once and hopefully never again:
Biological functions and the like are not privileges when it comes to male privilege.
This was a very cissexist submission and I’m disappointed in the submitter.
I’m not sure what brought this submission on but I hope that I will never see something like this in the inbox in the future. Female bodies come in all ranges and some female bodies have penises and testicles. That’s just the way it is. Being able to castrate yourself (mutilate yourself in a lot of eyes) is not a privilege.
Male privilege is never being asked:
“If you like girls so much, why don’t you dress like one?”
