Flutterby™! : male privilege

Tee hee hee: Over at Real Adult Sex, Figleaf addresses issues of male privilege in the Kathy Sierra, and offers up one more example of male privilege that I haven't seen addressed elsewhere:

The real reason guys don't fucking hijack comment threads every time men venture an opinion (and sometimes even when they don't) the way they do to women is that men can do something women can't. Something the various trolls, gnats, and serial murderers that afflict women just really don't want to deal with. See, the second we want to hear crickets from those kind of guys is we can always post photos of our pee-pees, as I have below the fold.

Hmmm... If we end up with a trolling problem here I may just have to consider that...

If that hasn't convinced you that there's bunches worth reading over there, here's guest poster Kochanie following up on that example of male privilege, and then here's a great post on how language can excuse violence which links to I Blame The Patriarchy on that mob of Yezidi Kurds who killed that 17 year old woman with stones.