So I wanna get this out of the way first, I can appreciate that woman still support feminism for various reasons, but I also don't think it's sexist or wrong to point out the fact that a noticeable amount of feminism is blatant misandry these days.

So I work for a relatively large corporate company, and lately I've been finding it rather tedious to sit through certain meetings or presentations regarding woman in the workplace, because they can blatantly talk negatively about men and disregard them entirely and it's deemed OK.

So we had this lady do a presentation on empowering woman to come into our industry as a career, the usual "why aren't woman represented more in this field". The correct answer is that men and women simply have different interests and this just isn't as interesting to woman as it is to men, but no, that's sexist think today. So anyway the presentation was happening, and this particular lady started talking about male privilege, white male privilege, all the privilege.

A male co worker had politely pointed out that woman also have a level of privilege regarding the workplace, this lady was actually a gender quota hire, hired simply for being female. He pointed that out. She asked for him to be removed from the presentation for being disrespectful and hostile...

So one of the reasons this type of stuff annoys me is because male privilege isn't real. I've never felt like I've had any sort of benefit for being a man, especially when it comes to employment. I finished school and struggled to find work, every employer wanted the 18 year old with 20 years experience, I worked any odd job I could get for years, travelled around the country from town to town, living with relatives or living in hostels just to take these jobs. I flipped burgers at fast food places, worked telemarketing, hard labour jobs, you name it. I dealt with endless time wasting from potential employers, I'd travel a long distance for an interview only to be told then and there by a receptionist that the interview was cancelled, no notice and a generic fake apology.

I've dealt with mental health issues and being suicidal because the struggle to find permanent work was that hard and I was always broke. Finally, I got lucky and landed a job that provided on the job training. Now I work in this industry and while I still have your usual problems here and there that I'm sure everyone does, I'm always grateful that I finally have stable employment even if it's not always fun. Alot of men I know have gone through similar things, especially if they've had an injury at work and have had to try and get back into the workforce after that.

So this lady holding a presentation on how men just have life on easy mode and how they have all these advantages simply for being men, it's just exhausting to listen to. But if you don't attend you're seen as a negative person for the company, if you dare question these feminist woman and challenge their own privilege, like my male co worker did, you're removed from the presentation, and I wouldn't be surprised if HR gave him a stern warning about "misogyny" too. The most frustrating part is, imagine if I, a man, held a presentation on men in the workplace and how we don't get the same benefits woman do like being hired simply for being men, or being prioritised in the hiring process because the company wants to have more woman in the company, being hired even if you aren't the most qualified simply because you're a man.

I've had to fight tooth and nail for everything in my career, so it annoys me because it really comes off as all of my hardships and struggles not being a big deal. But if I said the same thing about this lady, I'd most certainly be fired. But yet, nobody says anything. She even bought up the gender pay gap and used all the same lies and misrepresented info that feminists love using to talk about it. Everyone knew she was completely wrong, but nobody can say anything.

I'm just really fed up with having to go to work and listen to these ridiculous people complain about how everything they have isn't enough and that all the men in that room, men who have gone through alot to get into these jobs and climb the ladder to the positions they're in, are somehow privileged and haven't had to fight for those things. When these same feminist woman (I call them that because normal woman think these ladies are full of shit too), they refuse to acknowledge that they haven't had to work very hard at all to get into those positions and get very defensive if someone mentions things like quota hires.

Has anyone else dealt with this at their job? We even had a lady who came on to talk about the struggles of being a woman in the workplace, and yet when she talked about her career it was all positives, she was just complaining about how she hasn't seen as much career growth as her male co workers, but even acknowledged that she took alot of time off to start a family and went back to work while her husband stayed home and how she struggled with the pressure of working full time and then coming home to be a parent too, like yea, men have been doing that for decades. That's how it is when you have children as a man, you still gotta go to work. Only these days you see the reverse, but these ladies complain about that now too.

I'm booking a week off work because I'm just so sick of hearing about it, these ladies who send 3 emails and then need a coffee break, or forever leave work early because their children are sick or something and then they hold these types of presentations to complain about how they don't make as much money, it's because they're at work less often, even the other woman in our office have tried telling them this, but these feminist type woman just don't want to listen. It's like you've insulted them to say yea, you didn't get paid as much this month because you left work early 5 or 6 times and didn't work it back. I'm so glad there's ladies in my office who call this bullshit out too, feminism is exhausting and shouldn't be allowed at work what so ever imo. It's hypocritical that they can have these presentations and disregard all the men, but if a man were to do the reverse, there'd be hell to pay.