Got Male Privilege? (part 3)

This is part three of what will be a six part series on male privilege. Or at least what some people think of male privilege. You can start at part 1 here. You can find the entire list of 47 privileges here.

Okay, lets begin. Here are the next 8 in the series:

17. As a child, I could choose from an almost infinite variety of children’s media featuring positive, active, non-stereotyped heroes of my own sex. I never had to look for it; male protagonists were (and are) the default.

And just how is that non-stereotyped? Feminists love to tell us about the horrors that Patriarchy inflicts on men via expectations of toxic masculinity.  We men are conditioned at an early age to become the characters that are being derided here.

But what about the other common depictions of men in the media? You know, all those commercials where a smart and strong woman has to come to the rescue of the doofus male? Or almost any modern sitcom. The male is portrayed as stupid, misogynist, geeky, or just in desperate need of the love and caring of a woman. The woman is never any of these things. How is this influencing our children?

Remember, women are always able to kick a man’s ass on TV. Here’s the result of that misinformation campaign:

18. As a child, chances are I got more teacher attention than girls who raised their hands just as often.

Maybe back in the 1960s. Since then we’ve been drugging our boys to keep them calm and compliant. Girls have been outperforming boys in education for decades. We’ve tailored education to fit the female learning style while ignoring our boys. In fact, anytime male under achievement is noticed in  the media, the feminists are quick to attack the author. Usually with some variation of, “it’s boy’s own fault”, and “if they would just act like girls”, or “so what, men are still in power, so it can’t be hurting them too bad!”.

19. If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether or not it has sexist overtones.

True, because men haven’t been indoctrinated to see the world through the lens of sexism and oppression. When your entire worldview begins and ends with “I’m a victim”, you will create and see victimhood everywhere. You become a living self-fulfilling prophecy.

Western women today are not oppressed. They have more opportunities and rights than at any time in history. Yet their feminist overlords require that they always be a victim, in need of saving by men. So they have been training girls to see sexism everywhere, in every interaction. They even define old school chivalry as benevolent sexism.

20. I can turn on the television or glance at the front page of the newspaper and see people of my own sex widely represented.

Privilege? Or curse? Let’s assume this one is in reference to news, since newspapers were included side-by-side with TV. What are the two most prevalent subjects at the top of the broadcast, or front page? Politics and crime. Politics was covered in part 2, #13. That leaves crime. Do they seriously think highlighting male criminality is a privilege? Here’s where that gets us.

Maybe they don’t care about the quality of the attention, as long as they are getting some.

21. If I’m careless with my financial affairs it won’t be attributed to my sex.

Not a privilege. Empirical evidence supports any gendered view here. Especially for millennials. I’ve even been victim of female financial planning. I made the mistake of letting my wife pay the bills for a period of time (I got tired of her complaining about me choosing to pay debt over play time, my bad). She went off to school and stopped paying bills for six months. We almost lost our house. She had changed the contact information for all of the creditors, so I didn’t even know we were in trouble until after she quit the school experiment and came home. It was quite the adventure trying to recover from that. We did, but I now pay the bills. And guess what? In true red-pill fashion she’s happier and less stressed.

22. If I’m careless with my driving it won’t be attributed to my sex.

Oh, so THAT’s why males under 25 pay the highest insurance rates. It’s male privilege! Thanks!

23. I can speak in public to a large group without putting my sex on trial.

Well that certainly isn’t because women say dumb things in public is it? Remember when Representative Sheila Jackson Lee asked if the Mars rover had found our flag yet? That’s just one example, and us men have Vice President Biden to represent us in public. So that’s a bit of a wash.

But even so, that ugly misogynist fact based empirical evidence is probably behind this one too. But this should change soon anyway. Especially now that the GOP owns Congress. You can expect the media to put every dumb thing a Republican says at the forefront of any political reporting.

Speaking of which, you know what Obama’s most common complaint to his speechwriters is? “Why are there so many words between the “I”s?”

24. Even if I sleep with a lot of women, there is no chance that I will be seriously labeled a “slut,” nor is there any male counterpart to “slut-bashing.”

True. But maybe there is a good reason for this. Civilization depends on the restraint of hypergamy. And the slut bashing comes from women, not men.

Okay, eight more male privileges down, 23 to go. We’re about half done. Here’s  part 4.

  • Fred Bastiat

    Anyhow, tough (if misguided) woman, but men and women are just not identical and its silly to keep pretending that sex is a concept that can be rationalized into a social construct. Not a fair fight if you ask a man to have a baby either.

    I’m not a boxing fan, but do refs normally step in and give someone a breather whenever a few shots are received?

    Also, no expert, but she moved as much as a tree, I saw no side to side, head movement, feet work, or any of the ‘boxing stuff’ I normally see in a fight. “Hi, I’m your target today!”