Excuses why some people don’t believe in male privilege
"Because my second cousin's best friend who lives halfway across the country had a divorce and his wife got the kids even though he wanted them, and that proves judges are biased against men in child custody no matter what those feminist-biased studies say! Oh, and I know a guy who has trouble finding a job as a nurse, so some professions are biased against men and therefore the much greater incidence of women being underpaid or shut out of various professions doesn't matter! And black women have an easier time getting a job because people are more prejudiced against black men because they think they're violent! And I of course have no statistics or studies or anything at all to back up my position but I know I'm right because I'm not one of those evil feminists who just wants female superiority like you! And nothing you say matters anyway because I think that one comment you made was dismissive of someone else so that means you know you're wrong!"
I shit you not – I've heard all of these in the past 3 days, and this is almost verbatim, except that they come from several different people.
EDIT: All the furor is about the "infamous" Male Privilege checklist, which, as stated at the beginning, does not state that every individual man always has every single one of these advantages over every woman, but the majority of men have these advantages over the majority of women, and this is measurable and proveable and HAS been proven over and over and over and over and over again, and be excruciatingly polite while doing so. Yet every time some random guy challenges it I am supposed to try to prove all of it again, and if I haven't the time or inclination he trumpets victory, never seeing the irony in that his feeling not the slightest compunction in having been such as ass is a mark of… male privilege.
May 20, 2006 at 1:41 pm
I LURVE the male privilege checklist! I’ve been meaning to repost it at my place for quite some time. It’s great to see men get all twisted and constipated over it. *grin*
May 20, 2006 at 6:32 pm
I just am too bitter to find that kind of behavior amusing anymore. It just sickens me.
May 20, 2006 at 8:36 pm
hello, my name is ronnie. i have recently for no reason been researching the oppression of women in the world. i knew there were problems, but not as many as i found. it is too much. i am a man and i’m proud of it, but i admit that i am a little ashamed because of these many problems i found because just about all of them are caused by people of my gender. i can understand why you are angry. don’t know wether to call you angry or very selfaware but i can understand you. although i personally never treated any woman badly, i would like to say on behalf of my gender that i am sorry. i look foward to checking back on this site and researching more things to open my eyes. maybe you can help me understand more about this because i am looking at it through a male point of view. thank you.