



Here is the poster:

http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1oeunq/i_made_this_poster_about_patriarchy_and_female/

Let’s take the first 20 items and see what we can find.

1. Lower chance of being a murder victim

Correct. In 2010, there were 10 058 male victims and 2 918 female ones.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl01.xls

2. Lower chance of committing suicide

Correct. In all countries tracked by the World Health Organization in 2011, except for China and Sao Tome & Principe (I had to Google that – it’s an island nation off the coast of western Africa). In every other country, far more men than women commit suicide. In some countries, the differences are stunning.

Country Rate for Men (per 100 000) Rate for Women (per 100 000) Sao Tome and Principe 0.0 1.8 China 13.0 14.8 Lithuania 61.3 10.4 Russia 53.9 9.5 Belarus 48.7 8.8 Hungary 40 10.6 Guyana 39 13.4

http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide_rates/en/

3. Lower chance of physical assault

Correct. The Bureau of Justice Statistics figures for 2008 report that for all personal crimes including rape and sexual assault, the rate of victimization per 100 000 was 21.9 for men and 17.8 for women. When only assault is considered, the rates are 18.3 and 14.4 respectively.

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus/current/cv0802.pdf

4. Longer average lifespan

Correct. In 2010, life expectancy for US men was 76.3 years, compared to 81.1 years for women.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_06.pdf

5. Less work related injuries

Correct. In 2011, the rate of work related injuries for men was 128/10 000 and 104/10 000 for women. Nurses are the women most likely to be injured. Nursing is one of the only really useful things that women do, and the only physically demanding job dominated by women.

Shout out to nurses.

http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/archives/osh2_11082012.pdf

6. Less work related deaths

Correct. In 2010, 4 322 men were killed at work, compared to 368 women. Men worked 56% of all the hours recorded by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, while women worked 44%. Men suffer 92% off all fatal work injuries relative to their hours worked.

http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfch0009.pdf

7. Shorter/easier criminal convictions

Correct. Women are less likely to be convicted of the crimes for which they are charged, and when convicted, they receive on average half the jail time that men do, if they are jailed at all.

This paper assesses gender disparities in federal criminal cases. It finds large gender gaps favoring women throughout the sentence length distribution (averaging over 60%), conditional on arrest offense, criminal history, and other pre-charge observables. Female arrestees are also significantly likelier to avoid charges and convictions entirely, and twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144002

8. Circumcision is illegal

Correct. The Girls Protection Act makes female genital cutting a crime. It remains legal in every state to cut the genitals of male infants.

http://www.equalitynow.org/node/866

9. Draft Immunity

Correct. Only males are subject to Selective Service Registration.

http://www.sss.gov/default.htm

10. Divorce/Family Court Bias

Correct. 17.8% of fathers had legal custody of their children in 2009, the latest year for which the US Census Bureau offers statistics. While some women may argue that the bias is justified, there is no question that the courts are in fact biased, awarding custody to women in 5 out of 6 cases.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p60-240.pdf

11. More scholarships available

Uncertain. Scholarships.com lists 11 scholarships specifically for men, and 4 for women.

http://www.scholarships.com/financial-aid/college-scholarships/scholarships-by-type/womens-college-scholarships-grants-and-fellowships/

A large amount of federal grant money is channeled towards STEM fields, in which men continue to dominate at all levels of study, strongly suggesting that most of that money will go towards men.

http://stemgrants.com/

12. High college acceptance rate

Incorrect. More women attend college than men, but also apply in greater numbers and therefore face higher rates of declined admission. Men actually have the advantage here, because they are relatively rare on campus, and in order for elite colleges in particular to keep their gender balance at 50-50, men are given preferential treatment.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2009/11/18/us-civil-rights-commission-investigates-college-admission-bias

13. Less likely to drop out of college

Correct, however the reason for that is rather interesting. Men’s tolerance for debt is lower than women’s, so once the debt load gets too high, men re-consider the return on investment, often reaching the conclusion that the degree is not worth the money.

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/gender-debt-and-dropping-out

14. Emotional encouragement

Seems intuitively true, but hard to verify with statistics. When you consider that virtually all primary school teachers are women (98.1%), and combine that with the startling prevalence of single motherhood, there are an awful lot of boys being raised in complete isolation from male role models.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/25/fathers-disappear-from-households-across-america/?page=all

Doesn’t seem a big stretch to me that girls are raised in environments structured around their needs and surrounded by other girls and women and constantly encouraged, while boys do not have that privilege.

15. Hypergamy

It means the desire to marry someone of higher social status than yourself. And yes, men are most attracted to beauty and women are most attracted to high social status when it comes to mate selection.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23915041

16. Cheaper healthcare

Partially correct. Young women pay higher premiums than young men, and older women pay lower premiums than older men, mostly because of usage patterns.

https://www1.aetna.com/about/aoti/aetna_perspective/roleofgender.html

17. Better healthcare

Correct. Men’s healthcare is underfunded globally.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/05/17/184771915/the-unsafe-sex-should-the-world-invest-more-in-mens-health?sc=ipad&f=1001

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

18. Control over 60% of US wealth

Correct.

http://www.businessinsider.com/infographic-women-control-the-money-in-america-2012-2

They don’t earn 60% of the wealth, but they control it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States

19. Reproductive rights

Correct. Women have three options available to them when confronted with an unintended pregnancy they do not want or a child for whom they do not wish to assume financial and legal responsibility.

They can abort the baby before it is born They can refuse to identify the father and place the baby for adoption They can surrender the baby under safe haven laws

Men have zero legal options when confronted with an unintended pregnancy they do not want or a child for whom they do not wish to assume financial and legal responsibility.

20. Women’s Shelters

Correct. There are 1500 women’s shelters in the US, and to my knowledge, zero shelters specifically to protect men from violent partners.

http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/domviol/facts.htm

There are, however, more homeless shelters than there are women’s shelters. Around 4000, and since most homeless are actually men, I guess technically, men have more shelters than women.

http://www.shelterlistings.org/

Pyrrhic victory?

Hmmm. Well, that’s interesting. It turns out that most of Lexus’ claims about female privilege are true. All the more curious that Manboobz has a post up mocking Lexus.

http://manboobz.com/2013/10/14/ladies-what-are-your-favorite-unchecked-feeemale-privileges/

What’s that saying again?

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Lots of love,

JB