The Reality of Female Privilege

In very right of his manhood, a man is better qualified than a woman to pronounce an opinion upon the advantages specially appertaining to the female sex. Thus, being a man, I deem myself qualified to discourse authoritatively upon the gain and glory of being a woman.

The physical advantages of being a woman are many and various. The gift of Beauty, with all its concomitant delights, belongs to woman, and to her alone. There never was, and it may be safely predicted that there never will be, on earth any such creature as an ugly woman. Nobody ever heard of such a phenomenon. To be a woman is to be beautiful. "Beauty" merely means the sex female.

I have traveled in many lands and mingled with all classes, but I have never yet seen either an ugly woman or a handsome man. One man may possibly be a shade - just a shade - less hideous than another, but no man makes a nearer approach to beauty than that. All men are of necessity ill-shaped and ill-favored, whereas all women are, by a law no less inflexible, symmetrical in form and fair to look upon.

The Reality of Female Privilege

The average woman and the average man.

Widening this inequality is that woman is privileged to dress in the costliest and most fanciful fashion... Whatsoever things are rare and splendid are at her disposal, to make her irresistible. Man - poor devil! - is restricted to the same cut of clothes from generation to generation. His garments seem to be contrived for the express purpose of enhancing his native ugliness and making him look even more ridiculous. He is doomed to ignominious inferiority, and must not dare to emulate the splendor of the angelic sex.

Then consider the physical bother and irritation you escape by the simple expedient of being a woman. A man either wears a beard, in which case he must brush, comb, and oil it, at the great cost of time and trouble daily... A lady may sip soup with a dainty grace, whereas a gentleman is compromised in the most distressing manner by his mustache.

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Or he wears no such mustache, in which event he has to submit himself daily to the horrible operation of shaving, a fate which, by virtue of being born without the curse of pubertal development of body and facial hair, a woman will never have to endure... Moreover, she may let her hair grow to the length of her waist. We must have ours cut once a month. Oh! Who would not be a woman.

The Reality of Female Privilege

Men fall easy victim to woman's enchantments... This - in addition to man's relative psychological immaturity (a man comes of age at 60, and a woman at 15) - is one condition which enables women to get what they want from men: man's tendency to be deranged by his own excited penis. When his penis stands up a man's brain takes French leave, which is why a woman who wants to rule a man first gets his penis to stand up and salute her...

The Reality of Female Privilege

Having been exiled at birth from the center of life, the Womb, which Woman retains inside herself for the entirety of her life, Man must strive throughout his life in order to return. This reduces Him to a servant of Woman, driven by his testicles.

This is perhaps the most monstrous curse known to man! The curse of testicles. Says Saint Augustine: "God had given men testicles as a reminder of the irrevocability of original sin." Religious validity disregarded, the unpleasantness is valid! The testicles are that which induce the high libido of Man: perhaps Man's most massive hindrance! Countless moments wasted during unenjoyable things, all in effort to acquire but a brief moment's pleasure.

Not to mention that with libido unappeased, a man may fall victim to Pornography, and be driven into a world of fantasy, forever becoming unsatisfied with the comparatively disappointing realities of life.

The Reality of Female Privilege

Woman, free from this hindrance, and with pleasures of daily life unminimized by the curse of Pornography, can spend the month doing things she enjoys, inconvenienced only a few days a month by ovarian pain of menstruation. Their lower libidos enable them to control the supply, in order to manipulate man's demand. That’s what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess… Men have to buy women’s attention. It’s not a sign of power; it’s a sign of weakness.


The female chooses. Males pursue, show off, brawl, scuffle, and make general fools of themselves for love. Men will do anything to win the favor of women. No woman has to prove herself a woman in the grim way a man has to prove himself a man. He must perform. Failure and humiliation constantly wait in the wings.

Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It’s an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped, and they know it. Men are tormented by women’s flirtatiousness and hemming and hawing, their manipulations and changeableness, their humiliating rejections.


Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman’s ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men’s relationships with women.

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There is another benefit to Woman, for the fact that she possesses a Womb. Who has heard of such a society that endangers its female sex, and if they have, did it survive? Self-preservation is the first law of nature; woman-preservation is the first law of civilization. A civilization needs many wombs to maintain a steady population, but just one or a few cocks can do the job. Take 100 women and 1 man and the population growth would remain ideal; take 100 men and 1 woman, and that civilization would rapidly meet its death.

So, who is the last to leave the blazing house? Man. Who stands upon the bridge of the sinking ship and goes down with her into the abysses of the ocean, never to be seen again? Man; still man.

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And when war breaks forth, who fights? Who bleeds? Who dies? Who should it be, but man, the unluckiest of rascals? Meanwhile, woman - bless her sweet heart! - remains at her cozy fireside, safe, warm, and comfortable. Thus let it ever be, for our arms should be her protection, and her arms our reward.

The Reality of Female Privilege

Nor is it in times of danger alone that she has the advantage. Whether in war or peace, she has still "the longer end of the stick." Who toils? Who suffers all hardships? Who endures all inclemencies of weather? Who suffers all hardships? Who endures all inclemencies of weather? Who bears the burden and the heat of the day, and the rigor and the darkness of the night? Man - the unlucky rascal, man.

What can be more irksome, duller, more monotonous than the life of a man? What gayer, brighter, more delightful than that of a woman? A man goes out in the morning, and it may be for 6-10 hours afterwards, he is immured within 4 walls. There, in his prison, he toils and moils all day long, in inexorable captivity.

The Reality of Female Privilege

But no sooner has he left his house after breakfast than his wife is at liberty to wander where she pleases. She is queen of herself, that heritage of joy. She sallies forth to see the shops, to spend her husband's money, and to visit her friends.

The Reality of Female Privilege

"Make way for the ladies!” is the law of civilized society, from the equator to either poll. Men were only made to do homage to woman... Woman is the empress of creation, the world is her garden, and man her menial - nothing more... For whom are the tidbits reserved at every feast? Who gets sugar and spice and all things nice? Who's served first and has the best seat at breakfast dinner and supper? Woman, woman, lovely woman! Who pays? Man, the wrench! Who stands by patiently while they are being consumed? Man, hollow-eyed, famine-stricken man…

The Reality of Female Privilege

“Will any gentleman oblige a lady?” asks the omnibus conductor, and no sooner said than done. Out rushes a gentleman in soaking rain and cutting blasts, to oblige a lady whom he’d never seen before, and will probably never seen again. Who ever yet heard of a lady getting out to oblige a gentleman? The notion is monstrous.

The Reality of Female Privilege

Yet another privilege belongs to the female sex, and to them alone: the priceless privilege of Weeping. When any trial arises to warp their temper they can have a good cry and all is over. This celestial solace is denied to man. His heart may be bleeding at every pore, but he must not dare shed a tear. If he does, the finger of derision is pointed at him, and he never more may call himself a man.

The Reality of Female Privilege

Women have more strength in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power by their tears than we have by our arguments. Let the tears but rise to woman's eye, and all is over with "that other animal, man." Be his cause however righteous, he has no other option but to lick the dust! Says Lord Byron:

Oh! Too convincing - dangerously dear,

In woman's eye, the unanswerable tear!

That weapon of her weakness, she can wield

To save, subdue - at once her spear and shield.

What lost a world, and made a hero fly?

That timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.

The Reality of Female Privilege

These are but a few of the splendid advantages of being a Woman. But, let it not be supposed that I would abridge their priceless prerogatives if I had the choice. Perish the ignoble thought! I would enlarge those privileges and multiply those prerogatives one hundred-fold, if it were possible to do so.

The best of everything, their own way, and the last word in every argument - such are the rights of Woman. For my own part, I have never ceased to regret that I am not one, and a mother of nine children to boot.

The Reality of Female Privilege

The next dearest blessing that can befall a human being, after not having been born at all, is to have been born a woman.

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Most Helpful Girl

  • Uh...
    If this is any indication, apparently logic isn't boys' strong point.

    I mean... Lemme make sure I've got this straight.
    —··••WE••··— are... beautiful demi-goddesses who just beautifully bask in our beautifully beautiful beauty;
    while
    —··••YOU••··— are "ill-shaped" and "ill-favored" poor schlemiels of "ignominious inferiority".

    And...
    • WE have to fuck YOUR "ignominiously inferior" sorry butts,

    And...
    • YOU get to fuck OUR "angelic" perfect little bodies, which are just soooo perfectly perfect that it Pisses. You. Off.

    ... and this is FEMALE privilege?

    Fffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

    __

    I mean... It's a good thing this take is so fucking wrong.
    Because...
    well...
    ... because men are BEAUTIFUL.
    And they're PASSIONATE.
    And they smell good.
    And they make funny jokes.
    And they're hot when they throw heavy things around, spit on the ground, and push-start stick-shift cars.
    And they're still hot when they do those things just to show off for us.
    And they're still hot when they think they're subtle enough that we don't know exactly what they're doing. :*
    And they're hot as HELL with babies in their arms. <3 <3
    And they'll go to the ends of the earth and back to get us off in bed, especially if we're selfish and challenging.
    And they fall in sweet, sweet love... oh yeah they do... So fucking hard.

    • Yes, there are some of us, who really fall hopelessly deep in love with girls and women. It's like a mental chain in our heads, that's messing with us :( :S I never knew until I did. It just happened :o

    • @Unit1 We fall in love right back.

      Funny you'd use the example of... pulling on a chain, of all things. Because you know how that works, right? The chain always pulls on BOTH sides with the same force.
      www.newtonsapple.org.uk/.../...h-force-of-250N.jpg

      ... and, yeah that's pretty much how it works.

    • Because I know I discovered love. However it's only one-directional :( That's just the way life is. Words cannot explain love in full detail - scientifically speaking not.

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Most Helpful Guy

  • There are advantages to being a man. There are advantages to being a woman. There are disadvantages to being a man. There are disadvantages to being a woman. There are things about being a woman that are neither advantageous nor disadvantageous and there are things about being a man... you get what I'm saying.

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  • I wouldn't call it privilege but i do agree in general we do have it easier then men. Women have a bigger safety net then men but at the same time its we're limited, sometimes we're literally physically limited. There are less women starving in the world then there are men but there's also more men in positions of power. Also don't act like sexism doesn't exist in some form, and before guys sperg out i do not support modern feminism safe space man hating garbage but if you take an honest and objective look at every female actress out there they're all attractive, a woman can't be respected for her personality, she has to be attractive. Now at the same time i hate actresses who are feminist drones but it doesn't change the fact that men value a women looks over her personality.

    Again i do agree that men get screwed a lot and i feel bad about it. But its just the way it is. There has to be more men in the military and more men oil drillers and its sad but men are more likely to be depressed and suicidal but that's just the way it is because men are expected to overcome. And its sad that its a lot harder for a woman if she isn't attractive or if she's trying to make it to the top. Its just the way it is and it may be emotional, I don't know, but in my opinion i think men and women who bitch about female and male privilege are just cry babies. Its just the way it has to be for both of us.

  • Well I read all of that... all I can think is:
    - this guy needs to get with the times and gender roles.
    - oh the hardship of men choosing shaving each day, and getting a hair cut once a month - woe is he! Try shaving your legs, plucking eyebrows, toe hair, (also mustache) and other unspeakable things us women choose to do each day. But my point is, most of us girls choose to do this because we like to, not because society tell us too. At least, that's how I am anyway.

  • Lol being a man who never loses his figure to stretchmarks or tears open during childbirth.. their bits and bobs stays the same
    Female privilege haha don't think so.. That why most men dump us they just to polite to say- oh you're not as tight as u were before you birthed my child..
    They chase after younger while we stagnate on the scrap heap.. though we chuckle at men who do that we can't help feel somewhat bitter at being left behind

    So privileged we aren't..
    Even most animals breed then leave...

  • We don't entirely hold every type of advantage. We're in this world we where drive each other crazy.

  • not all women can benefit from this. if you do not fit the standard of beauty set by your peers, forget it, you are treated just like a man would be, if not worse. being a pretty woman is a great thing to be in society but being an ugly woman is worse than being an ugly man

    • ^^ Truth.

  • I read this with a Shakespearean accent!! I know, I'm privileged. Though I'm a nice person I do understand that if I fuck up even if I'm wrong, girls and guys alike will have my back. I didn't read this whole thing either. Look at the size of that scroll bar!!

  • " I have never yet seen either an ugly woman or a handsome man" ya that might be because you're a straight man.

    Some men def are handsome and some women are ugly. But I do agree in principle I think the average is more attractive than the average man

    "Or he wears no such mustache, in which event he has to submit himself daily to the horrible operation of shaving, a fate which, by virtue of being born without the curse of pubertal development of body and facial hair, a woman will never have to endure" -- that is a satire, right? Because we do have body hair, everywhere. And we're expected to remove it EVERYWHERE. So don't you dare complain about shaving. You know nothing !

    "There is another benefit to Woman, for the fact that she possesses a Womb. Who has heard of such a society that endangers its female sex, and if they have, did it survive? " -- you'd be surprised apparently more women have been killed purely for being women in the past 50 years, than men have died in all battles of the 20th century. Why do you think there are more men than women in the world?

    "Who gets sugar and spice and all things nice? " -- No that;s what we're made of

    "Who's served first and has the best seat at breakfast dinner and supper?" -- I thought that was traditionally the man of the house?

    • " Why do you think there are more men than women in the world? " Partly what you describe , including the disgusting female infanticide , but also more boys are born than girls everywhere. You are right , there is an imbalance ( 600,000,000+ surplus men ) , not good for BOTH genders !

    • @FatherJack But also men die earlier, which is why you would overall expect more women in a given country than men. And yet it's the opposite if you take the world as a whole

    • There are only more women in the 60= age groups due to younger male death , younger age groups are often 60% male / 40% female in some areas. One midwife described a maternity unit as " A sea of blue , with a few pink dots " , my daughters class is 75% boy !! Great for women that DO like men !!

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  • This is, with all due respect, bullcrap. Ugly women exist, handsome men exist. Just because you are only attracted to women, doesn't mean that other people can't think of men as attractive. I consider myself bisexual and I find both sexes about the same as attractive. Men are attractive or good looking in a different way than women, but that doesn't make it inferior. And with both genders, I know people who look good in my opinion and people who don't.

  • Hahahahahahaha this was a good laugh, no really, I liked this take 😂👍🏻

  • This prose, wtf.
    But lmao. The amount of backhanded insinuations in this... I almost feel like I should be giving you the nights earning or something.

  • "The next dearest blessing that can befall a human being, after not having been born at all, is to have been born a woman."

    Whatever dude. I love being a man. It's fucking great. If I was given the choice, I'd re-up that shit every year.

  • You've been reading too much Greek mythology mate... men fall victim to women's enchantments? Lol, this isn't some mermaid fairytale. Grow a pair, will you?

  • Yeah... no.

    Women are indeed more beautiful than men but this is because women are expected to be beautiful. They receive more consequences if they're not beautiful. Thus, they work harder to ensure they're beautiful. Wearing makeup, going under the knife (plastic surgery), etc. All of this requires lots of discomfort and pain & is not a privilege at all.

    Also, women DO grow body hair. The fact that you even think that women don't grow body hair is due to the DISprivilege that women are much more obligated by society to shave their bodies than men are.

    As for the sinking ship thing, that's largely a myth. Most shipwrecks do not, nor have ever, utilized "Women and Children First." In fact, in most shipwrecks, more women than men die. https://www.pnas.org/content/109/33/13220.full

    Women are not more "protected" than men. Women are affected more than men, by most disasters. www.unisdr.org/.../...asterandgenderstatistics.pdf

    Being expected to have long hair is the opposite of a privilege, especially in summer, where the long hair traps sweat to the back of your head. It's so much more effort to deal with, style, etc. With time I could be using sleeping instead.

    As for the omnibus thing. That was from the Victorian age so this is not at all relevant to modern society.

    But even back then it wasn't an example of privilege. Let me explain.

    The reason why men would sometimes be asked to go sit on the roof of the omnibus (origin of the word “bus”) to make room for female passengers was because women *couldn’t* sit on the top of the ‘bus, so it was only sensical that a man would make room for female passengers by sitting on the roof, because they could do that and women could not.

    Besides, the outside of the omnibus was more comfortable than the inside, anyway, and it was a privilege that a man could sit on the roof of the omnibus:

    • "[On the inside of the 'bus], there was straw on the floor to keep the passengers’ feet warm and dry. By the end of the day, this was both wet and dirty; this straw also harboured fleas when it was dry, and the ague when it was wet…The 'buses were notoriously stuffy and poorly ventilated inside, with no air except when the door was opened. If you were to take a journey on a Victorian omnibus, you would quickly find yourself tightly wedged in beside the other passengers and there would be a painful jolt every time it stopped. When people got on or off, you would run the risk of your toes being crushed or having sticks or parasols poked into your chest or neck. The proximity of other passengers made omnibuses a magnet for pickpockets and there was also the serious hazard of catching a deadly infectious disease.

    • For these reasons, men preferred to sit on the knifeboard of the omnibus, located on the roof. There were tiny ledges on which to step to reach the ‘knifeboard’, a raised partition along the middle with seats on each side. It was rare for women to venture up there as it was so difficult to get on and off wearing a cumbersome skirt or crinoline.”

      visitvictorianengland.blogspot.com/.../...bus.html

      So sure, some men might have had to sit on the roof of the omnibus on some days “in the pouring rain”, but that was a small price to pay for the comfort of being able to sit on the roof of the ‘bus on days where there was good weather outside. Trade-offs!

      Yeah, maybe a woman would be far less likely to go to the roof “to oblige a gentleman”, but that was because she *couldn't*.

    • & Also OP acts like men were so eager and willing to “oblige” women. To the contrary: “[Men would often try] to look as though they had not heard the question; or perhaps one of them is so unfortunate as to catch the conductor’s eye, and he mutters something to the effect that he had a cold, is in delicate health, etc… Once, a man got out of the ‘bus, saying, “I will, but I wouldn’t if I didn’t happen to know the lady,” excusing himself, I presume, in the eyes of his fellow men for his weakness in yielding." See the last sentence: men thought it was a weakness for a man to “oblige a lady!” As though Real MenTM were “above” it! It wasn’t encouraged! Oh and it’s not like men always treated women well on the ‘bus.

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  • "All men are ugly and unattractive and all women are beautiful. Also I'm a straight man with no standards. So obviously I don't find men attractive. However I fail to grasp that the reason I'm not attracted to men is because of my sexuality. Instead I'm going to deny natural selection and claim literally every single woman is attractive even though that defeats the entire idea of the concept between a genetically superior human female to mate with sexually attracting partners and a genetically inferior human female less suitable for mating. Even though it holds true for every other animal, I don't believe that there are varying degrees of sexual attractiveness among women simply because I would bang literally any woman I see due to my total lack of standards. I'm also whiny and disengaged with reality to the point where I see the average man as a morbidly obese man. "

  • I didn't read this to be honest, but I looked at the pics and... it's kind of true. Women are featured in the media the most and we can have lots of options for everything. We don't really have many rules for being taboo... that I can think of.

    • "We don't really have many rules for being taboo" ^^ what do you mean by this?

    • @redeyemindtricks Like hitting guys, wearing guys' clothes, wearing anything we want, and... even being gay could be more easily accepted. It is on the media vs gay guys, but I don't know IRL since I'm not gay.

    • @redeyemindtricks Or like how women can go in mostly guys' professions like engineering, I totally think it's an awesome idea and I know there can be sexism, but can you imagine what would happen if a straight guy decided he wanted to wear women's clothes or say men should have their own makeup or whatever? People would lose it. Women can express themselves in so many different ways with no one thinking anything about their choices... unless they make a statement really obviously. But guys... it's way more open minded these days and I know guys who love fashion, but I think guys can still be really limited. In fashion for straight guys especially.

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  • So much bitterness in here. Bitter take owner, bitter females, bitter males... I gotta get out of here.

    • Lol, I agree

  • Why does this website attract so many cucks?

    Like, this cuck is pretentious too. The first paragraph already had me wanting to puke.

    • 😂😂😂 I mean, that writing style tho... it's clearly been copied from SOMEwhere

  • Haha funny post and true to some extent (although most of those privileges are solely in the Western world). Some things I would add are men have much higher rates of homelessness and suicide. They are now falling behind in education rates. They almost always lose in child custody cases despite how horrible the mother may be. They can falsely accuse a man of rape/sexual harassment without proof and anyone including the accused who says otherwise is labeled a misogynist. They can hit a man and its funny. A man hits a woman and he goes to prison.

    I have yet to ever hear a feminist bring any of these points up except to demonize men. Women in 3rd world countries who marry men in developed countries really appreciate how Western men treat women. Older women in the US realize this too but younger women, especially ones who have been to college, have been taught they are eternal victims and men are the constant oppressors in every single situation. Fortunately not all of them fall for this BS but most of them do.

  • Gotta love the lack of self respect and REAL understanding of society.

  • Lol so much frustration from this guy. Like it's really, really sad to read this shit. Poor dude

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