This is the segment where I scour my favorite forums around the internet
and find some particularly interesting articles about current affairs
told in the words from some of my favorite human beings.
In this edition we have a scarcely believable blog from a male radical feminist known as 'XY Feminist', and I will be analyzing his claims to what male privilege is all about. If you want an added bonus of despair then just read her 'video game' reviews, that are even worse, some of the points are excellent reading, and contain no sense at any point.
http://xyfeminist.wordpress.com/the-male-privilege-list/
The List of Male Privileges
Are you ready for this? Remember he is trying to combat inequality, by treating people unequally. Here's a compilation of some of the more notable points in his list:
We start with number one, and probably the most serious point on the list, although maybe it's not that serious if you claim it's a privilege to men. There have been many female murderers over the years, including Catherine Monvoisin, the worst of all time, and so I'm quite confused as to how men are 'privileged' here, surely women are just as capable of murdering another person. He claimed that "men are raised to fight and kill", which would maybe be a valid argument in 1300, but in the 21st century that simply isn't true. I for one still haven't been taught those skills yet, and so this claim seems to be a massive generalization. He also claims that women are "more likely to die in gruesome ways", which of course makes all the difference, not the fact that somebody died, no all that's important is how they died. There's just no evidence for this claim, murder isn't a privilege, it's a horrific event that has very little to do with gender, and although men are more likely to be murderers, they still have no privilege, the sentence will always be the same no matter what the gender. This brings me on to the second point on rape, in which he claims that "women are always blamed", which is complete bollocks, try telling Rolf Harris that. These two points are actually quite disgusting, he exploits these two horrible events without ever showing compassion for the victim. His lack of statistics show that this incident should not be gender defined, but instead should be based on 'victim' and 'attacker'.
We then move on to the stupidity, most notably point number five on violence against women, a point which he effectively backs up with zero sources. But because I'm trying to make a point I will use at least one source, and I will happily show you this source that can at least back up the fact that women actually have more favorable sentences in the USA. (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144002) This of course is explained very thoroughly later in point ten, when we discover that men actually make all the rules. Of course the writer has probably never heard of powerful women such as Margaret Thatcher, or maybe Angela Merkel, hell even Cleopatra. This point is just so devoid of any logic that it just makes no sense, surely if the laws were all so biased then these female leaders would change them back again, but no, because of course it's only men that get into powerful positions.
But amazingly it manages to get even worse, I may have lost all faith in humanity when I read point number sixteen, "the privilege of physical strength", in which we learn that women are thin because of long cardiovascular sessions, and for some reason "purges", which is a rather brutal method of loosing weight, you sort of loose all of it at once as you lie decaying in the ground. Although it may actually refer to colon cleansing, which is equally as stupid. Cardiovascular on the other hand does the direct opposite of what is claimed on this blog, the number one benefit according to wikipedia itself is to "strengthen the muscles of respiration", and "increase storage of energy molecules", not making them weaker, like for example how Jessica Ennis is a lot more athletic when compared to myself, a very thin man, but then that's probably due to that fucking patriarchy. It's just the absurdity that millions of years of evolution have been disproved by one paragraph in a blog with zero sources, the only reference we get is from somebody name "Adria", so thanks Adria, thanks for filling my screen with complete bullshit.
And now we get to the bizarre. Point twenty six stands out for me, " the privilege of having no privileges", which is a paradox in itself. Yes apparently men can "claim oppression when it is useful", which may just be the most ironic point of all time, although it's not quite so funny when you realise that this person is serious, and does the exact same thing two lines later, "men can even blame women for the harms they suffer". Just fucking unbelievable. We then go onto talk about how men get "praised for mediocrity", which of course is in no way similar to the rise of people such as Kim Kardashian or Katie Price, or maybe by reading the comments below, although mediocrity would be a gross overstatement when discussing this horse shit. And then we get to points such as 'celebrating', probably the most bizarre and the weakest link in the whole bloody thing. You get the sense that he might be starting to run out of ideas, although I'm amazed he actually managed to count past three. So fuck you patriarchy, fuck you for teaching this imbecile to count.
Whilst we're here why don't we also go on about how men are always richer than their female counterparts, a common misconception based on invalid statistics, not that this person would understand that seeing as he plucks his statistics from thin air. Of course at no point during privilege number forty nine does he give any sources to this claim, the 22% seems to have just come from his head, although I think the real reason is that it's actually complete bullshit. This common myth comes from a generalized statistic that doesn't take into account position of job, experience or number of hours worked, and since more women have part time jobs it only makes sense that this statistic is significantly lower. It's actually been illegal to pay men and women different amounts for the same labor in the USA since 1963, so there's obviously no privilege here. The next point is also equally as stupid, since there isn't one. The majority of billionaires get to their position by hard work, and not by winging about how terrible their life is on the internet. To quote Italian footballer Gianluigi Buffon, "a winner always finds a way, a loser always finds an excuse."
But to finish with I have my personal favorites, most notably point number fifty six, the privilege of good medicine. she claims that "men get the majority of research dollars", with no source predictably, as it's complete bullshit. I'll leave a link to my 'ice bucket challenge' piece that contains a great little graph showing where the money for medicine goes to, and I'm pretty sure you can guess the outcome. Then we go on to find out that women have to endure harsher treatments, which is an irrelevant point since pain is subjective, and in any case breast cancer is detected using screening processes, where as prostate cancer is detected by having needles inserted into the scrotum, yet apparently breast cancer is a "worse prognosis". But that is overshadowed by the sheer ignorance of the final sentence, people are suffering from a fatal illness but because they've got testicles they don't deserve to be cured. Yeah, how dare you try and cure people of cancer, monsters. But nothing can compare to point number sixty two, the privilege to eat. I can't even say that without laughing, hundreds of years of peer reviewed studies have been single handedly destroyed by one ignorant man on the internet. Apparently eating is now not "socially acceptable", which is strange as it's a requirement to survival. Ha, look at that pathetic girl trying to stay alive. And this of course results in the false belief that women are "naturally smaller than men". But because I value science I will close this list review with a source, because then at least my arguments would be based on facts. (http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/update0906b.shtml)
Ice Bucket Challenge: http://christoforge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/my-thoughts-on-ice-bucket-challenge.html
No comments:
Post a Comment