What are the biggest female privileges?

a-man-from-earth · 2022-02-10T01:22:27+00:00

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LawUntoChaos · 2022-02-09T23:28:49+00:00

I am always hesitant to write about female privileges as an absolute but there are few that seem to form a strong pattern, just remember that these (whilst based on research) are open to interpretation and debate. I can certainly believe it, but it is worth doing your own research and to also be aware that social/behavioural research is often flawed. I'm skeptical of most of it as the variables that can confound it are potentially limitless.

Having said that, there are three that come to mind as particularly robust:

1) More funding on healthcare for women

2) More funding for services such as emergency housing and charities when compared to men (that even by lower estimates do not offer adequate services to men compared to women).

3) More scholarships for women even though men are falling behind in university at unprecedented rates

4) Female pedophiles draw no where no near the same amount of disgust as male ones (I feel pretty confident saying this).

And here are ones that have evidence behind them but are a lot harder to definitely prove

1) Women are more likely to be believed than men in situations of alleged domestic violence

2) Women are given lesser sentences for the same crime committed when compared to men and mitigating factors are more likely to be considered.

3) Women victims are given more coverage in the news and given unfair priority in times of crisis (See Boko Haram) or the multitude of headlines that say (paraphrasing) 11 dead, 5 of which were women.

4) Bias when it comes to teachers marking boys school work, and marking them down.

These, I don't necessarily think are examples of women's privilege (or males lack their of) but I do get the feeling these would be considered male privilege if the roles were reversed):

1) Men make up the vast majority of suicides

2) Men are more likely to die at work

3) Men are more likely to be in poverty/homeless

4) Men die younger on average

5) Men are less educated on average

6) Men are typically comprise the biggest death tolls in war, even when looking at civilian deaths

7) Men are more likely to get the death penalty

And more I'm probably missing.

lightning_palm · 2022-02-09T23:33:33+00:00

Short answer

Males are of the disposable sex; males protect and provide for females and, in doing so, sacrifice their own well-being and sometimes even their lives. Additionally, they compete among themselves to gain the right to reproduce, a mechanism that evolved to mitigate gene replication errors. Men are seen only as disposable resources needed for survival but not really deserving of much care and consideration in their own right. Men are only liked for how they perform and for what they can provide. Women, on the other hand, are seen as the be-all and end-all, the ones who truly matter; the ones for who it is considered natural and good to sacrifice the expendable male. This male disposability is enabled by the gender empathy gap.

Long answer 1

Men face longer prison sentences for the exact same crime. They are more likely to be shot to death by police, to be homeless, to be murdered, and to be suicidal. Men work longer hours even when unpaid work is considered and are more likely to die on the job than women, and even though they earn more money, women are responsible for the majority of consumer spending decisions and reap more in tax benefits than do men. In some countries, men are forced into gender-based conscription. Boys get lower grades for doing the same exact work as girls, and young men enroll in college at a much lower rate than women. Men are also not protected from domestic violence, despite research showing that domestic violence directed at men is at least as, if not more common, than domestic violence directed at women. Boys are not protected from genital mutilation and are more likely to be undernourished worldwide. Despite the fact that men are raped and sexually assaulted at alarmingly high rates (primarily by women, contrary to popular belief), they are not adequately protected (people might instead tell them how 'lucky' they are for the experience). Men are also vulnerable to false allegations of sexual violence and domestic abuse, and they face discrimination in the rental housing market and family courts. They have poorer health outcomes, lower life satisfaction and a shorter life expectancy than women, and yet resources continue to be directed disproportionately toward women. I could also bring up that men have no reproductive rights, and in many countries cannot even legally do a paternity test without the mother agreeing. Even if they are raped, they are forced to pay child support. Or that in the U.S., female business owners can get special tax benefits simply for being female. Or that feminists created the Duluth model that results in the male population that makes up at least half of all domestic violence victims not getting help and, in many cases, being punished for their female partner's violence towards them.

Cfox006 · 2022-02-10T00:02:27+00:00

Self expression. As a dude who’s into fashion and would kill to look “pretty”, men’s fashion compared to women’s is so constricting and it depresses me. I’ve had women try to say dress codes are hard for them in the work place when in reality men literally only have one type of thing to wear that’s acceptable (suits, dress shirt and pants) whereas women have pants, skirts, heels, shoes, blazers, dress shirts etc etc).

Also it’s so ass backwards that women have the privilege of make up and wearing wigs to hide their insecurities where men are made fun of for doing so and are told to “own it” when men literally bald and have to live with it.

Self expression also involves things like jobs and occupations where their value isn’t tied to what they do for a living meaning they’re free to choose occupations that they’re interested in and not be judged on how much it makes them.

What are the biggest female privileges?

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Title	What are the biggest female privileges?
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