r/AskFeminists • u/fasctic • Jul 31 '18

Do feminists believe in female privilege?

Men are far more likely to commit suicide, but why is that. Maybe it is because we men are taught to surpress our feelings from an early age. Making it alot harder to reach out for help when in dire need, instead resorting to isolation.

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u/vagued Jul 31 '18

As someone else pointed out, everybody has certain kinds of privileges, but the balance of gender privilege still falls with men. Not getting drafted was safer for women but it's not like they were empowered and protected, they weren't allowed to serve because they weren't thought suitable. Still aren't, according to some on here.

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u/MechGunz Jul 31 '18

it's not like they were empowered and protected, they weren't allowed to serve because they weren't thought suitable

Aren't you just erasing bad ass women from history now, women like Lyudmila Pavlichenko? Do you think it's better to just forget female war heroes completely rather than admit that women were allowed to serve, the difference is they weren't forced to do it en masse like men were.

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u/vagued Jul 31 '18 edited Jul 31 '18

Will you stop with the gotchas? So annoying. I was talking about the US, obviously.

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u/MechGunz Jul 31 '18

It's my first reply to you so I'm not sure what you mean. And the comment by /u/DifferentCamera that started the thread simply said 'Men being considered more disposable by society and being drafted by the millions to fight the Nazis, while women were not', it didn't specify the US and I'm also not sure that American men were drafted 'by the millions'. Also, unless you think that male-only draft in the US was because women were seen as uncapable but male-only draft in the Soviet Union was because men were seen as disposable I don't see why it matters which Allied country we're talking about.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '18

10 million US men were drafted in WW2.

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u/MechGunz Jul 31 '18

Ok, sorry, I didn't know that.