Note: 'Gonzman' has also posted an excellent rebuttal to Hugo Schwyzers
pro-feminist rant on Glen Sacks recent 'His Side' broadcast. (see Hugo
Schwyzer defines Male Privilege! posted seperately)
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
  http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/gonz/index.htm
Tony Ananda - Awesome.
UPDATE: Per Tony, he is not the Author of this, and copied it a couple years
ago, and does not recollect the author. Nonetheless, a hell of a catch and a
tip of the hat to him.

One from Tony Ananda at Stand Your Ground. [
http://www.standyourground.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=51226#51226 ]

This merits introduction. No comment is needed.

Female/feminist privilege checklist:

1. Do you experience other people paying for your dates, or occasionally
even picking up the tab in non-romantic settings? Or paying for vacations
when the relationship moves along?

2. Do you occasionally experience subservient gestures by the opposite sex
(opening doors, giving up a seat in the bus, standing up when you come in
the room)?

3. Are you able to simply pursue what you are interested in at university
without much societal pressure on "breadwinning" - although you could also
take that route if it interests you?

4. Have you had to register for selective service? Would you be ripped out
of your life and forced to defend your country in time of attack or national
emergency? Can you demand strength and full participation in society, but
then get out of this obligation by pretending to be weak with no influence
over society (only when it suits you)?

4.b. Can you come up with any and every excuse to get out of this without
being laughed at ("No one should be drafted" - when you would be the first
to cower in the corner and demand that someone do something if China &
Russia combined and attacked full force - and "If men start wars ..." when
women are the majority of voters and the expression is more likely "Men are
SENT in wars ..." - exactly what you're trying to get out of - and sometimes
sent by M. Thatcher, G. Meir, I. Gandhi, B. Bhutto and others).

5. Will you statistically get a much lighter sentence for exactly the same
offense if you commit a crime?

6. Are you able to take on a job or choose a career route that is only
capable of supporting yourself, with no thought to preparing yourself to
also support a spouse/children, although you are also free to choose a more
difficult career that will bring you more money? Do you not have much
pressure on you with regard to this?

7. If you are in a committed relationship, do you have much greater
flexibility to choose whether you want to work or simply stay at home (even
without kids)?

8. Will you be called an unemployed loser if you decide to be a homemaker?

9. If you have a flat tire on the road, if someone is harassing you in a
public place, if an animal attacks you, or if you are lost, will someone be
much, much more likely to help you?

10. Are people generally much nicer to you in public? Are you sometimes
given privileged treatment?

11. Are you much more capable of "marrying up" - enjoying the money and
status that comes with this?

12. Are you statistically much more likely to be given money in a divorce -
sometimes huge amounts - even if your behavior caused the divorce (e.g.
affair) and even if you didn't work for the money?

13. If you slap a person - or even knock someone's tooth out throwing your
Aunt Selma's Christmas mug at that person - is it much more likely to just
be viewed as cute, understandable or not a problem?

14. Do you statistically live much longer - possibly due to less stress on
you with regard to breadwinning, providing protection, being responsible,
not having society viewing you as "expendable" or viewing your problems as
not being important?

15. Do you have much more money spent on your health concerns in reality
(e.g. 5 times as much on breast cancer as on prostate cancer - although they
have roughly the same death rates) while you simultaneously claim that more
has to be done for you?

16. Are you much less likely to be homeless? Is more offered to you by
society when you are in this position?

17. Is there far less scorn and pressure on you by society when you are an
irresponsible doofball? Are your default rates for payment of child support
roughly twice those of the other gender, while you simultaneously complain
about the other gender not paying?

18. Has whining about and hating the other gender actually been made into a
course of studies in college (women's studies) - as opposed to the true,
neutral, unbiased study of this topic - which is simply anthropology?

19. Do you have full opportunity to do anything you want in life - become a
doctor, a lawyer, start a business - while simultaneously using the fact
that many of your gender don't CHOOSE themselves to do these things as an
argument to try to gain even more advantages? Do you get affirmative action
because many of your gender don't choose to do these things, and thus the
numbers don't "come out right"?

20. Can you manipulate the other gender with sex in some cases to get what
you want? Can you pretend like you don't even know what anyone is talking
about on this topic?

21. Can you manipulate using old notions of men protecting and deferring to
women when it comes in handy?

22. Can you effectively manipulate by playing the victim? Do tears work
sometimes?

23. Can you get sympathy if you don't work and don't have children by
listing all the household work (hmm ... Oprah really does get high ratings,
though) while simultaneously being able to bear the cognitive dissonance of
calling your sister's husband who stays home a worthless bum that she ought
to leave?

24. Can you "mix and match" traditional and progressive roles -
finding just
the right mix to get what you want? Can you be a "traditional wife" -
enjoying the positive features of that (like not having to work) - while
simultaneously being a progressive feminist when THAT gets you advantages?
Or having a career while simultaneously using traditional chivalry and male
deference to your advantage?

25. Can you constantly say "that's just typical" and "it
doesn't surprise me
a bit" and make a lemon face if you are a parent-in-law? Is near-universal
contempt by both genders for your behavior hidden to a much greater extent?

26. Can almost any remark by your partner be construed as verbal abuse if
you want sympathy, but the meanest, nastiest, most humiliating things that
you can say simply involve "speaking your mind" and "some
people just don't
want to hear the truth"?

27. Can you use the fact that gender roles were differentiated long ago -
with different advantages/disadvantages for both genders - to try to induce
guilt today in people who had absolutely no connection with any of that? Can
you say that you have been discriminated against for thousands of years -
when you're only 20 years old - with a straight face? Can you even make
things up about history and no one will really check or dare call you on it?

28. Can you propagate myths and outright lies ("Superbowl/domestic violence
hoax", "rule of thumb", 1/4 rape statistic, intentional
misconstrual of pay
figures, and many more) and be given a "pass" - without more rigor being
demanded?

29. Can you rationalize your own failures using the concept of the
"patriarchy", and blame the other gender for nearly everything that goes
wrong in your life - even with quite contorted explanations that no one
would otherwise buy - while failures of the other gender are just ...
failures?

30. Do you want to be treated like a child when it suits you but as an adult
when you get an advantage from that? Do you "look the other way" when
someone doesn't require responsibility from you that they certainly would
from the other gender?

31. Can you focus heavily on perceived earnings in the workforce - the
statistics of which are influenced by people's choices in reality - while
utterly ignoring the inter-family transfer of wealth? Can you completely
ignore the fact that one gender picks tougher jobs (garbage collector),
works more hours and takes on more responsibility because of more pressure
to earn - but the other gender has the same lifestyle and statistically more
assets (and not just because of inheritance/earlier age of male at
death....). Can you deliberately claim that earnings figures are based on
equal pay for equal work? (when you probably full well know that they simply
involve all people working more than 35 hours - and don't take type of job,
hours worked over 35/week, danger, responsibility, years in the work force
etc. into consideration at all).

32. Is what used to simply be an irritation for grown-ups many years ago -
the self-centered rantings and foot stompings of spoiled high-school and
college brats - now not only embraced by your movement but almost the modern
cornerstone of it?

33. And if you irritated about generalizations and stereotypes ---- and
utterly fail to see the hypocrisy in stereotyping and generalizing about one
gender while simultaneously making a career (literally in some cases)
whining about your own gender being stereotyped ...

.... you may have female/feminist privilege! But don't let on - because you
can gain much more with a continual victim status.


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