Peggy McIntosh Male privilege checklist - are these still relevent?

[PrettyLittleLiar]

1. My odds of being hired for a job, when competing against female applicants,
are probably skewed in my favor. The more prestigious the job, the larger the
odds are skewed.

In my experience, men are still seen as being intrinsically more capable than women. A female CV needs to be quite outstanding....

3. I am far less likely to face sexual harassment at work than my female coworkers are.

4. If I do the same task as a woman, and if the measurement is at all subjective,
chances are people will think I did a better job.


6. If I have children and a career, no one will think I’m selfish for not staying at
home.

7. My elected representatives are mostly people of my own sex. The more
prestigious and powerful the elected position, the more this is true.

8. When I ask to see “the person in charge,” odds are I will face a person of my
own sex. The higher-up in the organization the person is, the surer I can be.


17. If I’m not conventionally attractive, the disadvantages are relatively small and
easy to ignore.


20. My ability to make important decisions and my capability in general will never
be questioned depending on what time of the month it is.

21. I will never be expected to change my name upon marriage or questioned if I
don’t change my name.

22. The decision to hire me will never be based on assumptions about whether or
not I might choose to have a family sometime soon.

23. If I have a wife or live-in girlfriend, chances are we’ll divide up household
chores so that she does most of the labor, and in particular the most repetitive
and unrewarding tasks.

24. If I have children with a wife or girlfriend, chances are she’ll do most of the
childrearing, and in particular the most dirty, repetitive and unrewarding parts of
childrearing.

25. If I have children with a wife or girlfriend, and it turns out that one of us needs
to make career sacrifices to raise the kids, chances are we’ll both assume the
career sacrificed should be hers.

26. Magazines, billboards, television, movies, pornography, and virtually all of
media are filled with images of scantily-clad women intended to appeal to me
sexually. Such images of men exist, but are rarer.

27. In general, I am under much less pressure to be thin than my female
counterparts are. If I am fat, I probably suffer fewer social and economic
consequences for being fat than fat women do.
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EDS - Hah, EvilTwin. Could not resist.

And I do believe these are true to a greater or lesser degree. I deliberately removed the ones I felt were not relevant, or that you had already covered.

And @KINKY, you clearly are not familiar with my posts if you think I am a 'poor helpless female". This post was part of a larger conversation between ET and I. but I can see why you got that impression. Just chalk this up to another 'he said, she said' argument between fems and anti-fems.