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Male Privilege Is...

A poem of inequality.

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Male Privilege Is...

Male privilege is sitting in class being asked to leave because my shoulders distract you.

Male privilege is going to work and knowing you’re getting 21 cents more than I am.

Male privilege is knowing you’ll never hear “get back in the kitchen” jokes like I do.

Male privilege is being able to insinuate size and girth of your penis in conversation but, I can’t even mention my vagina.

Male privilege is you being able to make constitutional laws about what I do with my uterus.

Male privilege is you being able to be shirtless yet my same anatomy is sexualized.

Male privilege is being on a college campus knowing I have more chance of being raped because people see me as frail and not able to fight back. They don't see that in you.

Male privilege is going out to a club and knowing you can say “no” to someone and they’ll leave you alone.

Male privilege is walking alone at night and you knowing that you’re safe, when I know I have to fear every shadow and every corner.

Male privilege is knowing that less than 15 percent of CEOs in America are women. You make up more than 80 percent of the top offices in business.

Male privilege is having sex education in school and realizing we only talk about protecting you. Not me.

Male privilege is unfair.

Male privilege is abhorrent.

Male privilege is real and ongoing.

Don’t say “this was written by a raging feminist,” say “we need to do something about this.”

Work with us, not against us.

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