“This is female privilege” is comedy gold!

[redqueen]

http://manboobz.com/2012/07/18/this-is-female-privilege-is-comedy-gold/

My new favorite terrible Tumblr blog is this is female privilege, a blog that posts user-submitted examples of, well, female privilege. It’s a pretty MRA-adjacent idea for a blog, seemingly designed to be appreciated only by those who can use the word “misandry” without giggling. The woman who runs the blog seems to be fairly MRA-adjacent type herself; she recently responded to one critic with a sarcastic “Wow waahhhh it’s so hard to be a woman wahhhh!” (Literally; that’s an exact quote.)

So it’s hardly surprising that many of the posts seem to have been cut and pasted straight from the Men’s Rights subreddit – at least figuratively, if not literally. (Click on the pics to see the posts in context at this is female privilege.)

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But a lot of the alleged privileges are a bit, well, odder than that. The blogger says she posts everything she gets, so either a lot of people have pretty cockeyed notions of just what privileges are, or some feminists are trolling her blog by sending along the dumbest non-privileges they can think of to make the blog even more ridiculous than it already is.

Some suggest that biological differences are “privileges.”

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Because we all need a laugh now and then.

[seabeyond]

1. yes. as soon as i saw the posting of female privilege, i just walked.

you could tell me a female privilege, man paying on a date and i can recognize this. seeing how i have had threads on it and have stated a number of times i never allowed it. that privilege entitles us women to then have the expectation of having sex cause we were bought after all, with a meal. or men in groups whiney about how unfair it is. or men posters declaring we are all prostitutes one way or another cause men pay for dinners.

i real privilege there, that i always refused.

then, when a man asked me out, and i told them i had to pay my share, we would have an awkward back and forth of his demanding on paying, and me insisting if a man wants a date i pay my way.

why?

well, i am not sure how men explain it but has to do with their masculinity.

the point of privilege is recognizing and saying no thanks when the chance is there. not pretending it does not exist. not such a tough one for me. i reject them.

but, ya. the crap at that site was.... a total lack of understanding wtf this privilege thing is all about

[redqueen]

7. I just laugh.

[malthaussen]

2. After a point, I find abysmal ignorance ceases to be funny.

Dang me, but there are a lot of whiny people in the world. It makes me worry for the future of the human race sometimes.

-- Mal

[seabeyond]

3. i feel the same. nt

[redqueen]

5. Yeah, true...

But you can only explain so many times, before you have to just give up. It's clearly willful ignorance, so what else can you do but mock it?

[ismnotwasm]

4. I read that

We seem to have a new infestation of people who think like that here on DU I've noticed. Very sincere and concerned, of course.

[redqueen]

6. I don't think it's just newbies.

[ismnotwasm]

8. Point.

Some have gone by and been replaced I guess I mean

[CrispyQ]

9. My faves:

Female Privilege is having a longer life expectancy than males. That’s science.

Female privilege is the fact that the world could exist with only women and a sperm bank.



And this one I would like to address:

Female privilege is never having to be considered weak for cooking and cleaning

This is something that men put on themselves, because most women I know are impressed with a man who cleans & cooks.

The rest were mostly a mix of stupidity, ignorance & misogyny.