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In America, what systemic privilege or legal right do men have that women don't?

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  • 4 years ago

    Men have the right to walk down a street after dark without fearing being raped or assaulted

    Men have the right to move up the corporate ladder because the boss isn t concerned he will be taking time off to have a baby

    Men have the right to knock up as many women as they want and walk away, no financial/emotional responsibility because they don t have to carry the child around INSIDE them for 9 months

    Men have the right to VIAGRA being covered by health insurance while women still have to pay out of pocket for our birth control

    Give me a break people... if you don t understand that MEN have the clear advantage in this society, you have your eyes closed. Wake up.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    The right to shoot cûm shots

  • OPM
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Well, had you asked me ten years ago, I would have said that most states define a woman's residence in terms of the husband, so that a woman who lives in state A and marries a man in state B, even though she never stepped foot in B, as may happen with a college student, becomes a resident of state B at marriage. The woman would lose voting rights, in-state tuition and so forth. However, with marriage no longer based on sex, it is difficult to say how the courts would rule on that. There may be a handful of systematic differences in a handful of states that have never been challenged in a court, but I don't think any important ones remain. Although, as I said, had you asked me ten or even twenty years ago, I may have been able to give you a decent sized list.

  • Dick
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    The biggest one I can think of is the "right" to have to support HER kid, when SHE forgot her birth control.

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    You can tell there aren't any or there would be feminists all over this like a cheap suit.

  • Elana
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    There are places where they are allowed to wonder around topless where women are not allowed to. This is usually a matter of town or state law.

    Other than that, I've got nothing.

    Oh yeah ... and the ACA gives them a free prostate test under some circumstances.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    I'll be damned if I can think of a single one. Thanks for asking it.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Legally none that I can think of.

    Depending on where you live and who you deal with you will find sexism that goes both ways.

  • 4 years ago

    Only women are required to register with selective service

    We have a department of men's health, but not women's.

    Men are advantaged by affirmative action

    Men owned business advantages

    Violence Against Men Act

    Laws advantaging boys in education.

    Or do I have those backwards?

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    There are no federal laws advantaging men over women, there are several that advantage females over males however. I few states don't allow women to go topless where men can.

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