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RE: The Privileges of Womanhood and the Realities of Being a Man

In the light of a world where we live in patriarchy this is a very interesting perspective. What you are observing is not really "female privileges" but rather expressions of patriarchy. It might seem counter-intuitive that in a world dominated by men, women are sometimes treated better. But are they really? The fact they are picked up on the side on the street is because they are regularly objectified by the drivers. It is prestige to carry a woman in your car, while men that are about a trillion times more violent than women can pose an immediate threat to the driver.

Same logic applies to prison cells: It is a problem of the system that male prisons are not preparing for re-integration into our society but rather are plagued by violence. But the fact that this does not happen that regularly in female prisons is that women are just less often violent.

On the topic of physical violence: I don't know about your lifes realities, but in my world almost everyone can make a difference between a soft and friendly slap and an act of violence. This difference can be made regardless of gender. It is just a fact that femicides, where for example an ex-partner kills a woman, are a thing of reality, while the contrary is virtually never the case.

Also it might be true that a woman can get your senior workers in a better base-mood than you can. This might be something you can profit off of if you use it correctly. But have you ever thought about who earns more? Almost exclusively males earn more than females for the same work. So is it really an argument for "female privilege" or rather yet another argument how men can use women?

There might be moments when it might seem like women are in a more fortunate position than men. This might actually be true in a few areas. But is it really fair for women that suffer under the male-dominated system to say they are "so privileged" and men "have it so bad"? Let's rather focus on fighting patriarchy, rather than strengthening it. In the end also men can profit from a more emancipated society.

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I so much love you points and how you approach them.

But in some cases, can't SOME OF these be tagged " FEMALE PRIVILEGE" ?

And can you me some insight about the concept " female / women privilege"

Let's learn

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Of course some things can be tagged "female privilege". In certain aspects, as you mention with being picked up on the street to get a lift home, it certainly is a privilege of being a woman. But my hypothesis is that mentioning this will not make our world a better place. All this does is portraying men as being in a worse position than women - while the opposite is generally true.
What I strive for is an emancipated society where men and women live with equal rights, both de-jure and de-facto.
Your observations have not been wrong. Quite the opposite: Your observations are correct and are correct to be criticized. But at the same time the phenomenons that you have observed have reasons that lay deeper - and this is what we should study.

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