Why Do Women Still Want To Retain Their Biological And Socio-economic Privileges

Why can't we just define a man as someone who can't get pregnant naturally, and debunk the gender spectrum nonsense right there?

Goodness, I’ve been promoted to man since I had my tubes tied. Should I expect people to stop talking to my cleavage any day now? When is my authority on the academic subjects I spent years studying going to be respected?How about people who use fertility treatments? Is everyone who has ever gone through a fertility treatment also a man, since they didn’t get pregnant naturally?How about people who are naturally infertile? All men?How about children under the age of menses? All boys?How about women past menopause? Man central?How about people who have had a hysterectomy or their testicles removed? Dudely dudes?How about people who don’t have either just XX or just XY chromosomes? All sausage party all the time?In all seriousness, have you thought this through?What I and many other people answering this question are trying to tell you is that even if you only want to consider biology, there’s still more out there to consider than whether or not someone can get pregnant without intervention in order to classify someone as a woman.It also does not follow that gender roles, which are the social behaviors assigned to people based on the gender assigned to people, follow in any easy or simple way from whether or not someone can get pregnant without the intervention of medicine.Some things are inherently more complicated than we’d like them to be—gender is almost always going to be more complicated than most people would like, in part because it involves mapping expectations and behavior to someone’s presentation, none of which is particularly stable or easy to quantify (or qualify.)The good news is that this is probably not something you have to worry about personally. You can regulate other people’s gender to their problem, not yours.It’ll save you having to spend time agonizing over it.

If male privilege is defined as the set of advantages males tend to have over females, wouldn't female privilege also exist, and if not, why?

Privilege exists, because bias exists.And yes, female privilege very much exists.It is perhaps spoken of lesser, because contemporary socio-cultural constructs have long been more favorable to men, and continue to be in many parts of the world, to date.Here are some examples of female privilege that I personally experience on a regular basis-I’m not particularly worried about traffic stops having a tragic ending, because I’m a petite woman and unlikely to seem like a threat credible enough to use force. A black man, can’t take that for granted.I’m highly likely to be seen as warm and nurturing around little children, even when they aren’t my own. A man, typically can’t take that for granted.I’m likely to be offered help, if I were crying in public. People will likely leave a man crying, alone.On a related note, I can cry and express emotion, without being judged harshly for it. Men shedding tears is looked upon as “unbecoming”, which is something so ridiculous, that it angers me.At the workplace, people are less likely to yell at me, because I’m a woman and I might just cry. Men are much harsher to one another, than they are to women, in casual conversation.In the current climate, if I were to be sexually harassed, I would likely be taken seriously (in the US). Men are on the back foot in this regard, recently. This is unfortunate, but it is true.If I am a mother, getting divorced, I’m much more likely to get child custody of younger children. This one is tricky, because it sounds like an advantage, but stems from patriarchal ideas of child-rearing being a primarily woman’s job.Should I find myself homeless, there are many more organizations whose doors I could knock on. This one is particularly sad and also tricky, because as a woman on the streets, I’m much more likely to be the victim of sex-related crimes.In the dating pool, women are typically the ones propositioned more. Men are typically the ones waiting on an answer to their propositions, though this has patriarchal roots as well.This is by no means an exhaustive list, nor does it indicate that because of “female privilege” my life is just a total paradise.We all receive benefits we take for granted due to our genders, socio- economic status, culture, ethnicity etc., none of which mean that there aren’t disadvantages too.A privilege, is a perk you didn’t have to ask for. It was simply given to you for being who you are.A mere recognition of that fact, makes one much more empathetic towards others.

Hey guys, when did you realize that you had male privilege?

I first truly experienced male privilege when I went through the process of buying my current home back in 2015.I’d bought a house back in ‘97, before my transition, and there’s a night and day difference in how I was treated by everyone in the process (realtors, attorneys, mortgage lenders, title company, inspectors, etc) when presenting female vs presenting male.When buying a house while presenting female, it seemed like every decision or definitive statement I made (“I want a single family, unattached house with a yard and either a full basement or an attic for storage”) was questioned. Realtor told me I should go for a condo or town home instead, and it was only when I put my foot down and said I’d find another realtor if he didn’t show me the kinds of homes I wanted to see, that he finally relented. I was asked multiple times in the process why I, as a single woman, would want to buy a house. Didn’t I want to wait and see if I might get married, and buy with my husband? What if I got married, and he didn’t like the home? It was not just the realtor who asked- the mortgage banker, the home inspector, the attorneys, all wanted to know.Fast forward to 2015, I’ve transitioned and have been presenting as male for several years. When I told the realtor what I wanted, he made it happen. Everything in the whole process went so much more smoothly. People bent over backwards to make sure I got what I needed. No one asked me why I was buying a home all by myself, or wondered if my “future wife” might not like the home I was purchasing.I had a similar experience in buying a car, as well. Women are seen as needing direction, not knowing what they want- or if they say they do know what they want, they might not really mean it. People in selling positions (realtor, car salesman) have the attitude that they know better than you, what you really need and want, and will try to manipulate you to change your mind. Men are seen as knowing what they want, and if the sales person tries to suggest alternatives but you hold firm, they respect that. Very little to no manipulation takes place, in my experiences. A woman’s “No” means “Change my mind”, but a man’s “No” means “No”.