1. Men Take Up The Majority of Combat Deaths in the Military
Might as well start with quite possibly the first thing out of anti-feminists' mouths as soon as you bring up male privilege. Firstly, this is true. Men do in fact die more in the military than women. However, let's look beneath the surface here. And to do that, we'll have to use facts, something antis claim to care about until the facts are used against them. The most glaring flaw with this argument is that men are the overwhelming majority in the military. Women only take up 15% of the US Military, whereas men take up 85%. Furthermore, women were barred from combat roles for the longest time. And to cap it all off, you can't really be oppressed by something you chose to be in. No I'm not saying that soldiers deserve to die, not in the slightest, but they can't be oppressed if they willingly enlisted, trained, and dedicated their lives to being in the service. Before anyone brings up military conscription, literally no one of this generation has been drafted into war. That shit died in the 70s. If it was still around you'd maybe have more of a case to go off of. But it's not around, and you don't have a case. So shut up.
2. There Are More Men In Jail Than Women/Men Get Harsher Sentences Than Women For Identical Crimes
I always laugh whenever this gets thrown at my face. Why is that? Because it's incredibly clear that antis didn't research a bloody thing about the issue. Whilst it's true that men take up the prison population more than women, it certainly isn't a result of sexism. It's no secret that just about almost every perpetrator of crimes is a man. As of 2014, men committed 98% of rapes, 90% of homicides, 77% of assaults, and 87% of robberies. Assuming these convictions were true, as they come from the FBI, it's hard to consider that oppressive. These men could've easily not killed, raped, or robbed anyone, but they chose to ruin others' lives. On the flip side, most of the crimes committed by women were nonviolent offences, such as shoplifting or vandalism, which normally carry much more lenient sentences. As far as identical crimes go, I have absolutely no idea where they're getting that from. Whenever a woman rapes a young teenage boy, usually in those statutory rape cases, the woman's rightly carted off to jail for a few years. I cannot say the same for men because they either never get convicted or only serve a few months. Or ya know, become elected officials. Sure, sometimes women get off easier, but that is not the norm. In the case of violent crimes, the reason women are likely to get more lenient sentences, especially when it comes to domestic disputes, is because 9/10 women who hit their husbands, or anyone else for that matter, do so in self-defence.
3. The Majority of Workplace Deaths Are Men
This is probably one of the easier ones to debunk. Mostly because the main reasons for these workplaces fatalities is due to a failure of equipment, aka accidents. The biggest way to solve this issue is just to take the proper safety precautions, which can be done by dismantling the idea that men taking steps to make themselves safer is wimpy. What's more is that the number one cause of workplace fatality for women is homicide. No really. Can only imagine what they'd say to that. However I have a feeling I may not like the answer.
4. Men Are Victims of Homicide More Than Women
Ok can I just say that it's incredibly dumb how much dying is a motif for MRAs and such? It's getting to a point where I literally am starting to hypothesise that they think women are immortal or something. As stated above, men are the primary cause of these homicides happening in the first place. Also, women are statistically just as likely to be a victim of a homicide as men, and this isn't even including how many women are murdered as a result of intimate partner violence. In fact, the stats for that are just gutwrenching. Like, there are more women killed in domestic disputes than there are soldiers killed in the Iraq war. One can only imagine what the stats were for any other time.
5. There Are More Homeless Men Than Women
Yes, but women are also more likely to live in poverty. The difference here is that women are more likely to seek out resources for their situation. This, as you could guess, is a result of patriarchy backfiring on men. If you want to solve the homelessness situation, encourage men in financial turmoil to seek benefits and tell them that it's ok if they do so. This also applies to suicide. I'd bring that up, but I already made a blog post about that a while back.
6. More Men Are Raped Than Women If You Include Prison Rape
This is merely bollocks since the claim itself is based on incomplete data, or at the very least the data was highly misinterpreted. You see, the Daily Mail article this originated from is not only a Daily Mail article, which therein is a good indicator of quality (or lack thereof), the study only accounted for one Ohio city. It reported that only 50,000 women were raped in that city in 2008 and 2011, but within those years, there were 200,000 male inmates who had been raped by fellow convicts or prison guards. The article's actual data contradicted its headline, which claimed that it accounts for the whole country. I did some digging on the topic, and the highest percentage I could find for prison rape statistics that included both men and women was 20%. 17 million women are raped a year as opposed to 2 million men according to RAINN. Sure, prison rape is a pandemic, I'll grant them that, but to say that more convicts are raped than civilians is just simple dishonesty, no more, no less.
7. Women Win A Majority of Custody Battles
And finally we reach this little nugget. I'm getting kinda sick of having to argue patriarchy each time, but it's never been more prevalent here. One, gender bias in court is greatly exaggerated. The reason women win most of the time is because both parents agree that the kids should go to the mother. This is also a result of patriarchy dictating that a woman should resign to being a housewife upon the birth of their first child. Despite what MRAs will tell you, women don't get custody of the kids right away just for being women. If that were true, Bristol Palin wouldn't have lost her custody battle. There's no dark magic at play that gains women complete control over divorce court proceedings. Stop thinking one episode of Judge Judy mirrors reality. In fact, studies say that 70% of fathers who fight for custody are likely to get it. I think it's time dads got up off their arses and actually put in the effort to win these things since the scales are tipped in their favour.
So there you have it. 7 arguments against male privilege totally dismantled in one short post. I know a bunch of these articles exist already, but I don't care. I have my own perspective on the issue and I'm gonna give it. I just hope you learnt something from this, no mater what your biggest takeaway from it was.
