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  • What Is Male Privilege?

    I've been looking up a lot of gender relation articles and I keep coming across the term Male Privilege. I was hoping someone could define it for me as a man I see no way in which the system that I live within is skewed in my favour.

    I work with mostly women who always get consulted first on any task not involving the use of strength. I feel as though I work harder than them all who from my observations spend most of their days sitting in front of computers punching in data and chatting while the lion's share of the real floor work, that we are all hired to do, is left to me and the new girl. I would love to take a day off my feet and spend it sitting at a desk doing what they do but the work isn't divided that way and I seem to be bombed out of most conversations at my place of work too unless I initiate them.

    While at home I arrive later than my wife to be and am forced, by the matter of my OCD, to immediately clean up after her and do the dishes form the morning that are still sitting there even though she's been in for hours and then start to cook dinner. If she does cook I can't relax because she leaves the kitchen in a state that can only be described as filthy and suggests that since she cooked I should clean. When I finally get to sit she always offers me the choice of what to watch on TV but vetoes any suggestion I make that doesn't fit her desire, while I actually can follow plot lines from Melrose Place since I've been forced to watch that on enough occasions.

    This is only of course if I am not ordered to bed to satisfy her sexually while my sexual need always and I mean always are considered secondary if at all.

    Where is my privilege as a male? and where, if it doesn't exist, does this myth come from?

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