Male Privilege, helpfully explained by a white dude

[hfojvt]

215. except the fool in the video said

"I can jog" - WITHOUT FEAR

"I can walk to my car" - WITHOUT FEAR

As if men, you know, thousands of them, are not mugged, knifed, shot, beaten, or otherwise threatened every day.

And the motive for the crime.

Well, it is great consolation I am sure, after you have had the crap beaten out of you, that at least you didn't have the crap beaten out of you because of your gender.

I should probably go visit assault victims in the hopsital and tell them that to comfort them. I'll walk up to their hospital bed, pull up a chair and say "Let me tell you about male privilege ..."

And sure people attack those they perceive as vulnerable. There was a girl who used to harrass me in the dorm. (Although I was 20 or 21 and she was likely at least 18, so not technically a girl). Once we happened to pass each other on the same path, going around some construction. And we were the only two on that path. Oh she did not have anything to say then.

One little guy in the 8th grade sorta did the same thing. He would publicly give me crap, and I would take it. Then we were scheduled to wrestle in PE, and he talks to me beforehand sorta pleading with me to take it easy on him. I was like 15 pounds heavier than him, but we both fell into the same weight class of "the smallest kids in the class".

I can certainly see extra vulnerability coming from smaller size and assumed weakness, but at the same time don't think THAT translates into some sort of 'privilege'.