To all you geeky men: check your privileges.

ucecatcher · 2011-09-18T02:18:27+00:00

If women want to change any of that, they need to quit bitching and start writing code. Admiral Hopper does not approve of useless whining.

iratethings · 2011-09-17T22:32:15+00:00

Wow... That's a very whiny article. And for contributing to open source, how would someone even know you're a woman?

CaptSnap · 2011-09-18T00:46:25+00:00

I like this one:

People of my gender are not generally used as examples of the most clueless possible user. Except for in advertising, sitcoms, movies and print.

I should check my privilege because there might possibly be one aspect of media that my gender isnt represented as the most clueless. There may be a radio station in Montana that doesnt portray men as morons and for that all men everywhere, always, are privileged in the media. Thats some pretty serious privilege right there.

KMFCM · 2011-09-18T01:35:36+00:00

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inyouraeroplane · 2011-09-18T03:46:07+00:00

Conference tshirts are generally available in my size.

See, why feminism is a blight on the world is because, yes, I suppose that might be somewhat true, however in light of vast variation between individuals and the comparative magnitude of the difficulty of life in itself such a thing is not statistically significant; but they pretend it is.

IncrediblyFatMan · 2011-09-17T22:30:45+00:00

Wow. That's a whole lot of of boo-hooing that more women aren't into those things than any sort of quantifiable "privilege."

I guess I should complain about there not being more men in nursing or the cosmetics industry or something like that and try to term at as some sort of "privilege" by being a nitwit who doesn't know the meaning of the word.

A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.

Not sure how this plays into more merely more men than women being interested in these things.

ThePigman · 2011-09-18T02:03:03+00:00

The first two aren't even privileges, hence will not read rest.

preeta · 2011-09-17T23:08:30+00:00

Conference tshirts are generally available in my size.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Elonine · 2011-09-17T22:37:40+00:00

Wait... that was serious? I read through it and seriously that it was satire...

skooma714 · 2011-09-18T03:54:49+00:00

To check yo' privileges:

ls -l

ForMensRights · 2011-09-17T23:38:10+00:00

Sweet, delicious tears. Cry more. There are lots of things that men are drawn to way more than women and vice versa. That's how life can be when things aren't forced toward one direction or another. I have no idea why some people feel it's so important for men and women to be equally interested in all things. I thought it was okay to be different.

G-O · 2011-09-17T22:59:16+00:00

ohnos! someone edited the list. =]

baja_01 · 2011-09-18T09:16:44+00:00

Someone should post these to /r/firstworldproblems

ether_reddit · 2011-09-18T08:13:33+00:00

My first thought when I read this title was "Oh fuck off!".

I knew it was going to be another of these useless lists of shit that gets called "privilege" when it really isn't.

2011-09-18T05:24:38+00:00

That's gotta be satire... I don't even know why people bother anymore.

elebrin · 2011-09-18T05:31:09+00:00

Stay reasonably anonymous and all these problems go away. In that sense the internet is the great equalizer. On the internet, gender is only the issue you make it.

sixofthebest · 2011-09-18T07:17:27+00:00

This list trivializes the word privilege.

ENTP · 2011-09-20T22:34:41+00:00

It's simple.

Claim male privilege. Choose not to enter that subject of study. When males dominate the subject, claim misogyny and ask for more power. Take the power, continue to not choose the subject of study. Continue to complain about male privilege, ask for even more power.

Rinse, repeat, until you have all the power, and you have everyone convinced you are the weak, helpless one.

Sun Tzu wrote about these types of strategies in the 'art of war'.

When you are strong, appear weak.

nlakes · 2011-09-18T04:38:23+00:00

I have to be honest, that thumbnail made me open this link without even reading the title.

KMFCM · 2011-09-18T18:41:36+00:00

my suggestion to these people would be how about stop expecting people they are generally known for looking down upon to rearrange their community for them.

ignatiusloyola · 2011-09-19T11:17:32+00:00

The leader of any open source I contribute to is probably of my gender.

The vast majority of my co-contributors are of my gender.

I don't get this... Genders don't have any distinction in their capabilities, yet somehow being in a group that has a majority of one gender is a privilege? If the genders are so non-distinct, shouldn't it not matter what the gender ratios are?

biffsocko · 2011-09-19T21:31:26+00:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html

only %15 of wikipedia entries are done by women.

"The notion that a collaborative, written project open to all is so skewed to men may be surprising. After all, there is no male-dominated executive team favoring men over women, as there can be in the corporate world; Wikipedia is not a software project, but more a writing experiment — an “exquisite corpse,” or game where each player adds to a larger work. "

The truth is that women are just not contributing in the same numbers that men are. If you want to change it, do something about it. Don't expect men to just stop kicking of a project or to stop joining them for the sake of keeping the demographics at PC levels. Nothing in the world is stopping women from starting their own opensource projects. Nothing is stopping women from writing wikipedia articles.

magister0 · 2011-09-18T23:08:11+00:00

I doubt that this is meant to be taken seriously. It's a pretty good parody actually

Title	To all you geeky men: check your privileges.
Author	sigtrap
Upvotes	26
Comments	68
Date	September 17, 2011 10:24 PM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/kj0kb/to_all_you_geeky_men_check_your_privileges/
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The leader of any open source I contribute to is probably of my gender.

The vast majority of my co-contributors are of my gender.