RE: My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male
December 28, 2014 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2014 at 1:41 pm by paulpablo.)
Quote:It's nowhere near comparable, men compete with everyone, male, female or trans, for success - But men don't slut shame each other and say oh that friend of mine (male) sleeps with so many women he is such a slut. Women are indirectly told by the media that every other is their competition usually when the beauty standard is high and everyone has to
Yes it's nowhere near comparable because men are much MUCH more forced to compete than women are, just look at school yard games, from an early age girls stereotypically tend to skip rope, dance, play hop scotch, dress up, play house, all co operative games. What do boys do? Well in my school if you were a boy and you weren't fighting, wrestling, trying to out run or out play other boys at football you were considered strange.
Men are much more likely to be mocked because of the lack of women they sleep with, but also can be ostracized for sleeping around aswell just not as much as women, it still doesn't make it a privilege to be a man in this aspect.
Quote:Have you ever thought that maybe females are less aggressive because society tells them from the start that being aggressive is a boy's thing?
No because males are more aggressive than their female counterparts in most species of great apes, I could be wrong but I think it's the case in most mammals, and I've never seen an orangutan being influenced by a woman's magazine, or a female chimp that was going to dominate her group until she got told by another chimp it's just a boys thing.
Quote:4) Maybe it's just where I live, but a man who wears low cut tops and tight tight shorts is ten times more likely to be made fun of, mocked and shamed, than a woman who does the exact same thing.
But that's because that's associated with homosexuality and gay get mocked more often that women
Or just a pervert, a man wearing tight pants that blatantly show his cock in a public area is more likely to be viewed as a sexual deviant, or like you say a homosexual, even if he isn't one. Therefore not a male privilege to go around wearing revealing clothing.
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