anbuend wrote:
If you're representative of guys, then no, you really can't get what it's like to be female.
Many of the so-called "advantages" you describe only exist to counteract disadvantages, and they don't even do a good job. How would you like to be in so much pain every month you can't think straight and not be able to get out of a test? Frankly tests are less painful than periods can be to some women, we'd gladly take the test if we could, rather than get out of it and have a period. Women have women-only things to get away from constant male-privilege crap. And we have had to fight for all of these things to exist at all. All you are doing is proving that you can't see your own privilege. Go read The Macho Paradox and get back here and say all that again.
I'm not representative of guys and never was. Most guys kiss women's butts. I don't kiss anyone's butt male or female.
That said: How is getting more prison time for the same crime as a woman an advantage? How is paying more for car insurance because you are a young man an advantage? How is being drafted and dying for a crooked politician/businessman in a dumb war an advantage? How is bearing the brunt of rejection by the opposite sex an advantage? How is being the one who is dumped most of the time an advantage? I could go on but I've said enough there.
That said, "that time of the month" like being pregnant, physically weaker on average, etc. comes with being female. Just like the above comes with being male. I don't see how you need all the women only stuff for your advantage. Given that you claimed equality. Men only groups are few and far between because if that weren't the case, there would be lawsuits from some gold digger. Plus, if you can't see your own privileges, how do you expect me to see mine? Even if I can? I never said I don't have certain advantages because of my sex because I do, but I said that women as a whole have it easier than men do.
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