"Women can have sex whenever we want isn't really a privelage, except that it is, but it's really an example of male privelage."

McFeely_Smackup · 2013-12-14T22:47:18+00:00

This article rambles rather badly and contradicts itself.

Women can't get sex easily by simply asking, and then cites multiple studies that show overwhelmingly that they can. Ok, they can...but it's not the kind of sex that women want. But there's no such thing as the one kind of sex that women want.

Basically she admits women CAN have sex whenever they want, but possibly not with exactly the person they choose, or exactly the type of sex they like. So even though women are fantastically sexually advantaged, they're actually oppressed because things aren't perfect for them.

talkingpiano · 2013-12-14T20:58:50+00:00

The writer never makes her point, does she?

But that's not particularly surprising. The experiment and the bar example both offer a very specific type of sex. The type of sex that, rightly or wrongly, is associated with male desire and fantasy.

Since women accept the sex, I would say it is associated with female desire and fantasy too, no? Or does the writer think the women accept the sex only to do a stranger a favor? Because that seems heavily implied.

qoppaphi · 2013-12-15T00:21:34+00:00

it's deeply unhelpful to tell women that they are privileged just because they can walk into a bar and have casual sex

But apparently it's extremely helpful to state that men are privileged because some other male was born into a rich family.

GeorgeOlduvai · 2013-12-15T03:35:28+00:00

Meh, it's alternet; what else did you expect?

2013-12-15T04:26:02+00:00

Almost hit the link, but then i saw that it was Alternet.

AtheistConservative · 2013-12-15T01:19:29+00:00

Yet another feminist who can't handle basic set theory or logic.

unexpecteditem · 2013-12-14T22:04:22+00:00

You know, I started to read this, ah, "article", and then I got distracted by this highly accurate advertising on the side.

dbe · 2013-12-14T22:13:35+00:00

That's a very poor headline for that article.

More broadly it could be asked, how easily do men and women get their sexual needs met. In any case, we are including both single people and those in a relationship.

But the author doesn't really ever go deeply enough to explore that, just sort of brings it up as an open question.

Title	"Women can have sex whenever we want isn't really a privelage, except that it is, but it's really an example of male privelage."
Author	MrMiracle26
Upvotes	21
Comments	19
Date	December 14, 2013 8:43 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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