Comment by itchyouch on 21/01/2025 at 04:20 UTC

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View submission: Male victimhood ideology driven by perceived status loss, not economic hardship, among Korean men

We have different definitions for “invisible privileges.”

I agree with your take though.

When I say invisible, I mean that they are taken for granted and expected. Some non-gendered examples would be clean water on tap, mail showing up daily, having roads that are engineered and follow various guidelines for safety are the kinds of “invisible privileges” I’m referring to.

For men, we enjoy an advantage relative to women regardless of our color, wealth or education. Here’s some examples.

access to easy birth control in vending machines and at the store, while women have to go through a doctor
sense of physical safety, women talk about how even scrawny men can overpower them
control over our bodies, no one dictates how skinny or fat, or what we should eat to the extent women do. At worst it’s usually, get jacked bro.
jobs that don’t discriminate if we have kids, while women are penalized for it
being human, not sex objects that should “smile for men or look the part for other women.”
intimate-partner violence that can kill them. Yes men can get poisoned and women can do horrific things, but usually not on a whim with bare hands.
grace over household labor from society.

Many of these things have tremendous amounts of friction for women while have far less to almost no friction for men.

Where we agree is that, I believe we men (especially the non-wealthy) need to sit back in solidarity with other disenfranchised groups in order to dismantle things, but not as a mens issue or race issue or women's issue, but as people issues.

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Comment by PsychicOtter at 21/01/2025 at 06:45 UTC

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Practically speaking though, only 1 or 2 of these feel like they might be uneven in our favor (meaning beneficial from a male perspective).

Comment by [deleted] at 21/01/2025 at 11:37 UTC*

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