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Your odds of being hired for a job, when competing against female applicants, are probably skewed in your favor. The more prestigious the job, the larger the odds are skewed.
You can be confident that my co-workers won’t think you got my job because of my sex – even though that might be true.
If you're am never promoted, it’s not because of your sex.
If you fail in my job or career, you can feel sure this won’t be seen as a black mark against your entire sex’s capabilities.
You are far less likely to face sexual harassment at work than your female co-workers are.
If you do the same task as a woman, and if the measurement is at all subjective, chances are people will think you did a better job.
Your odds of being raped are relatively low.
On average, you am taught to fear walking alone after dark in average public spaces much less than your female counterparts are.
If you choose not to have children, your masculinity will not be called into question.
If you have children but do not provide primary care for them, your masculinity will not be called into question.
If you have children and provide primary care for them, You’ll be praised for extraordinary parenting if you're even marginally competent.
If you have children and a career, no one will think you're selfish for not staying at home.
If you seek political office, my relationship with your children, or who you hire to take care of them, will probably not be scrutinized by the press.
Your elected representatives are mostly people of your own sex. The more prestigious and powerful the elected position, the more this is true.
When you ask to see “the person in charge,” odds are you will face a person of my own sex. The higher-up in the organization the person is, the surer you can be.
As a child, chances are you were encouraged to be more active and outgoing than girls.
As a child, you could choose from an almost infinite variety of children’s media featuring positive, active, non-stereotyped heroes of your own sex.
As a child, chances are you got more teacher attention than girls who raised their hands just as often.
If your day, week or year is going badly, you need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether or not it has sexist overtones.
You can turn on the television or glance at the front page of the newspaper and see people of your own sex widely represented.
If you're careless with my financial affairs it won’t be attributed to your sex.
If you're careless with my driving it won’t be attributed to your sex.
You can speak in public to a large group without putting your sex on trial.
Even if you sleep with a lot of women, there is no chance that you will be seriously labeled a “slut,” nor is there any male counterpart to “slut-bashing.”
You do not have to worry about the message your wardrobe sends about your sexual availability.
Your clothing is typically less expensive and better-constructed than women’s clothing for the same social status. While you have fewer options, your clothes will probably fit better than a woman’s without tailoring.
The grooming regimen expected of you is relatively cheap and consumes little time.
If you buy a new car, chances are you'll be offered a better price than a woman buying the same car.
If you're not conventionally attractive, the disadvantages are relatively small and easy to ignore.
You can be loud with no fear of being called a shrew. You can be aggressive with no fear of being called a bitch.
You can ask for legal protection from violence that happens mostly to men without being seen as a selfish special interest, since that kind of violence is called “crime” and is a general social concern. (Violence that happens mostly to women is usually called “domestic violence” or “acquaintance rape,” and is seen as a special interest issue.)
You can be confident that the ordinary language of day-to-day existence will always include my sex. “All men are created equal,” mailman, chairman, freshman, he.
Your ability to make important decisions and your capability in general will never be questioned depending on what time of the month it is.
You will never be expected to change my name upon marriage or questioned if you don’t change my name.
The decision to hire me will not be based on assumptions about whether or not you might choose to have a family sometime soon.
Every major religion in the world is led primarily by people of your own sex. Even God, in most major religions, is pictured as male.
Most major religions argue that you should be the head of my household, while your wife and children should be subservient to me.
If you have a wife or live-in girlfriend, chances are you'll divide up household chores so that she does most of the labor, and in particular the most repetitive and unrewarding tasks.
If you have children with my girlfriend or wife, you can expect her to do most of the basic childcare such as changing diapers and feeding.
If you have children with my wife or girlfriend, and it turns out that one of you needs to make career sacrifices to raise the kids, chances are you'll both assume the career sacrificed should be hers.
Magazines, billboards, television, movies, pornography, and virtually all of media is filled with images of scantily-clad women intended to appeal to you sexually. Such images of men exist, but are rarer.
In general, you are under much less pressure to be thin than you female counterparts are. If you're fat, you probably suffer fewer social and economic consequences for being fat than fat women do
It’s incredibly unlikely that I’ll ever be beaten up by a spouse or lover, even with under reporting.
Complete strangers generally do not walk up to you on the street and tell you to “smile.”
Sexual harassment on the street virtually never happens to you. You do not need to plot your movements through public space in order to avoid being sexually harassed, or to mitigate sexual harassment.
On average, you are not interrupted by women as often as women are interrupted by men.
You have the privilege of being unaware of your male privilege.
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