ho boy buddy baboo i know i said i would answer all your questions, but this is getting ridiculous! this is the last one you get, google's your friend! i know this might be socialistic, but here's a pretty easy to read article that sums up a lot of the damaging double standards for female beauty ideals: here!
in fact, these double standards are also what contribute to the prevalence of disordered eating amongst females, as well as contributing to the diet culture that encourages girls, even from the age of 6, to lose weight: check it!
you can disagree with these sentiments, but, in my opinion, they're an undeniable part of male privilege! in this case, with something that disproportionately effects females over males, i don't see how you CAN argue that, but whatever.
(also yes before you go there i know disordered eating and body image issues affect males too, but the fact is that women take the brunt of the illness on this one, much like sexual violence!)
I agree women are more prone to eating disorders, but I could point out many areas where men are more prone to such things. Like how 93% of work related deaths are male, how women are exempt from the draft, how men are 76% of homicide victims. Should I say women have female privilege because of these things? The entire point of labeling people with things they have no control over is redundant. Women have it harder in some areas, men have it harder in other areas. Thats the result at the end of the day. And yes, these issues need to be addressed. I'm not an MRA or a feminist.
that's why there are workplace advocacy groups in place for those who partake in riskier professions, life insurance policies, etc... you are definitely correct that males are certainly more likely to be the victims of homicide and work-related deaths, as traditionally, male-on-male violence is the norm, and riskier professions, such as construction work, are the purview of male workers. i would never argue that this is the ideal, and i would never try to discredit these deaths.
however you were talking about specific aspects of male privilege, how institutionalized power structures work to adversely affect female lives. if we wanted to turn it into a percentage competition, i could throw out statistics of domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, workplace discrimination, hiring process discrimination, pay disparity, representation in politics, representation as CEO's or business owners, skewed incomes, representation of women in the top 1% in america's income brackets, access to birth control, reproductive rights etc... these numbers contribute to the truth behind male privilege, representation in media, that we live in a society where men make the rules, run the businesses, and disproportionately affect the lives of women adversely.
no this is not true in 100% of cases, men do certainly die more in the workplace, oftentimes because of poor working conditions and business owner exploitation. this in a way is perpetuated by upper class patriarchy who have the money to contribute to life insurance funds and do their best to ensure that their workers are working under terrible working conditions. this is terrible, but not an accurate example of how male privilege doesn't exist.
edit: you can be worried about issues of classism, racist discrimination against of men of color, and others while still being a feminist! there's nothing wrong with that! in fact, it's great! just don't try to use what blue collar workers and the victims of poisonous american gun violence suffer through to discredit feminism
also lol what are we even talking about this point! you're moving the goalposts A LOT no offense, i'm glad you're replying though
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