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In reply to the discussion: "Man-bashing." My favorite DU pule. [View all]McDiggy
(150 posts)...and I honestly think I'd be in the exact same place either way.
I wouldn't mind being a woman in some respects. Women do have certain privileges I wouldn't mind having. (Female privilege is something rarely talked about on here...and it certainly does exist just as much as male privilege exists) I wouldn't have to pay for dinner ever again on a date. Men would put themselves out there for me rather than vice versa. People would open doors for me. I wouldn't be expected to perform an act of submission to ask someone to marry me. I wouldn't be expected to spend 3 months of salary to buy a woman a trinket to ask her to marry me. I wouldn't be at risk towards being called up at any time to be thrown into a war. I would actually have reproductive choice (men who cause a pregnancy can have a child against their wishes...women have the option of termination, adoption, or having the child.) There are think about being a man I like. Stronger physically. Nobody looks at me weird if I'm mowing my lawn. I can pee standing up. No menstruation. No risk of pregnancy. Statistically, I get paid more (even though in my workplace everyone I work with in the same position, men and woman, get paid the same.) Obviously these are a small sampling of the various wrongs or unfairness in gender relations.
I'm just saying, honestly, both sexes get their perks and their lumps. I could see how the older generation would feel more strongly growing up with the "woman in the kitchen" dynamic. But my generation (gen y)? Young men make less, have higher unemployment rates, attain lower education levels (women now obtain the majority of college degrees)...I just don't see it as much in my generation. And in some respects, perhaps the feminists should call the dogs off a tad. Young men aren't as privileged as they they used to be. And this generation of young men didn't "lose" any privilege, they just never really had it like their grandfathers and fathers had it. Which is why, for someone of my background and age, it's pretty weird to have people tell me how much privilege I have. There should be an age cutoff or something. Because I'm tellin' ya...young men don't have that much privilege.
I'd love to be Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, or Hilary Clinton. Are you kidding me? Who wouldn't want to live the life of Hilary Clinton? Senator? Secretary of State...flying all over the world, seeing crazy, secret stuff like the planning of the bin Laden raid before it happened? That would be awesome. Yes, without a doubt, I would love to be any of those women.
As for what I do...I'm a pharmacist...its actually QUITE a women dominated field. My Managing Pharmacist is a female. My district pharmacy manager is a female. In fact, women tend to get all of the plum gigs now that I think about it. Men seem to always get the night shifts or the busy stores.
Sometimes I think women REALLY, REALLY overestimate this "being a man" thing. If you honestly think all of us wouldn't like to live the life of a Hilary Clinton, you are nuts.