Why do men (yes, trans women included) throw tantrums when the topic of male privilege is brought up? Privilege doesn’t mean you’ve never faced hardships in your life, it just means that you have certain advantages that other groups don’t get to enjoy. That could be on the basis of class, race, sex, and/or other factors.
Like as a white person I’ve never once had an issue with white privilege being brought up. I know I have privilege because of my race, hell when I was an edgy teenager I stole candy and snacks and one time the security guard straight up looked at me doing it and nothing happened. I’m aware I would’ve been way less likely to get away with that if I was Black or brown. I’ve never feared for my life after getting pulled over by a cop. I’ve probably gotten more opportunities with jobs because I’m a white woman (who, by the way benefit the most from DEI, unlike what conservatives say). We need to acknowledge this privilege that we have so we can help fight the systems that keep those privileges in place.
But men? Oh boy, don’t get me started. They’ll come up with every argument in the world. “It’s 2025, we’re equal now!” “B-but the draft! But alimony! But child support!” “Women can get rich selling feet pics online!” “It’s easier for women to get sex!”
Can you name a place where men can’t go to secondary school? Where men can’t leave the house without their wife? Where baby boys are aborted or killed after birth simply because they’re boys? Where men and boys have part of their penis cut off causing long-lasting pain and trauma simply to stop them from feeling pleasure during sex? Where men have to keep an unwanted child inside of them? Where men are encouraged to become prostitutes instead of going to college? Where men have to beg to be taken seriously by doctors for their period/pregnancy issues and get told they’re just being emotional or gaining too much weight?
These are all privileges that men don’t have to deal with. Some of them they’ll never have to deal with because it’s physically impossible (pregnancy, periods, FGM). And yes, these things happen in the US and UK (because men love to argue that women aren’t oppressed anymore in the US and UK).
Acknowledging that you have privileges doesn’t mean you’ve never had a hard time in life. Pretty sure we’ve all had difficult times. But there are certain hardships I don’t have to deal with as a white person (racial profiling by cops, being called racial slurs, etc) just like there are also certain things men don’t have to deal with that women do (everything I mentioned.)

















