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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG.  Pull a Chastity Bono and become a man already.  I'm perfectly happy with my female privileges and have no problem getting corporate jobs in a male dominated industry.

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Using those female privileges to sleep your way to the top doesn't count.[/quote]

I've never slept with anyone that I've worked with.  Honestly, I've never felt sexism at work.  I do my job, I do it well.  I'm not dramatic and to the point.

But here are some female privileges:

1) When we do chose to stay at home with kids, we are not looked down on as being a sissy.  Stay at home dads face a lot of criticism.
2) We can take maternity leave.  Yes I know a lot of you have issues with maternity leave, but fathers do not always get to take leave and when some of them do, they are looked down on.
3) We are not assumed to be gay or labeled a metro-sexual because we care about our appearance.
4) Men face similar gender work issues when they choose a female dominated career: nurse, teacher, anything to do with dance and arts.  Again, they can chose these fields, but get labeled as a homosexual, or at very least are not considered to be masculine.
5) No one can trap me into becoming a parent.  I have the right to chose.  Men do not.

There are many more examples.  Here are some blogs that talk about female privilege (admittedly, some of the things listed are silly):

http://www.wihe.com/printBlog.jsp?id=400
http://www.feministcritics.org/blog/2008/06/08/female-privilege/
http://sweatingthroughfog.blogspot.com/2007/10/mens-privilages-vs-womans-privilage.html

In any case, I’m completely happy with my gender and the privileges that come with it.  You won’t find any “men have it easier” bitching from me, as there are two sides to every story and I like to look at both.
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