Posted on 05/05/2015 2:31:50 PM PDT by rightistight
...Mr. Greenberg teaches in Seattle and writes for Everyday Feminism. In an article published yesterday, titled “Looking for Proof of Male Privilege in Your Daily Life? Here Are 7 Undeniable Examples,” he tackles the concept of “male privilege.”
At the very beginning of the article, Mr. Greenberg includes a warning, writing, “This article is written from a White, cisgender, straight male’s perspective – in other words, from my perspective. Throughout, I discuss primarily experiences and research involving cisgender men and women, but I must acknowledge the limitations of such a perspective.”
Greenberg then told a short story that he said showed seven examples of male privilege, one which women aren’t able to do. This is what he wrote: “Thirty minutes after waking up, I zipped to the school at which I teach and experienced a damn fine day of teaching. Upon my return home, I headed out for a run on an unseasonably warm March afternoon. After a family dinner and tagging out of the bedtime routine for our four-year-old, I walked to a coffee shop, where I finally started this article, an achievement I rewarded with a short dose of Netflix.”
According to Greenberg, this story is a “staggering display of male privilege.”
...Third, he writes, “I Have the Privilege of Peeing Standing Up.” He begins this section by writing, “Between my two-hour classes, I needed to pee – an urge, I’m told by female colleagues, that a penis is able to keep at bay longer (yet another privilege, though physiological and cisgender-specific, to add to the list).”
He continues, “An open urinal or stall was waiting for me, as always. Such availability is not the norm for many women’s bathrooms… Pee privilege also extends to the outdoors, as it’s not uncommon to see men urinating in public.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...
“Normal”? You bigot!
“Third, he writes, “I Have the Privilege of Peeing Standing Up.’”
I’m suddenly reminded of a couple of scenes from the movie Bachelor Party...
Many years ago while working for a moving company and traveling down the highway I told the Tractor trailer driver that I needed to stop and take a leak.
I needed to go really bad.
He said no.
I asked “please stop”
No.
I didn’t have a liter bottle but found an empty potato chip bag.
It worked.
No, but he might be a male.
But you wouldn't want to offend people who aren't normal, would you? (Actually, I would but that's just me.)
I only have one penis!
Girls (and some men) can get as many as they want.
What the frick is that?
Due to the drought and only due to the drought, I pee outside to conserve water all of the time.
DANG!
Cisgender is a word that applies to the vast majority of people, describing a person who is not transgender. If a doctor announces, “It's a girl!” in the delivery room based on the child's body and that baby grows up to identify as a woman, that person is cisgender.
Seattle? I can only imagine...
this guy could be.....the next democrat contender!!!
It’s the new N word.
While walking to our car after a Vikings game, we saw a large woman squat in a stairwell of a parking ramp and urinate. So there you go, not only men can pee outdoors.
“...this guy could be.....the next democrat contender!!!”
He is even worse than that - right now! He is a High School teacher. No doubt pushing these views on our kids. Whenever one of my daughter’s teacher says stupid stuff she emails him and corrects him. (The latest was “Dear Mr. Johnson. Sarah Palin said you can see Russia from Alaska. It was Tina Fey the comedian that turned it into a joke and said “I can see Russia from my house!”)
These frickin’ teachers are fricken’ idiots.
BTW - back in New York City it didn’t bother some women to pee while standing up. More than once saw some homeless gal walking along with a bag in both hands, stop in the middle of the sidewalk, spread her legs (wearing a dress/skirt) and leave a little puddle. So all should be good in Mr. Cisgender’s world.
There’s only one way to resolve this under the socialist system... no one gets any, except government who gets 20 of everyone else’s.
HE WHO IS ENTRUSTED ....with the alleged education ..of some poor gaggle of hapless chilldrings!
Didn’t we used to call such men eunichs? Except in the original sense everything male was cut off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoptsy
I call BS. Women wear booty-shorts and nobody bats an eye. I wear booty-shorts and I get arrested. What gives, Greenberg? What gives????
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