Legal Right's Women Have That Men Don't

A well written piece and a little refreshing too because I have to be honest, despite the MRHM speaking of female privilege all the time, here is something actually showing rights that women have that men do not.  While the meaning of privilege is often subjective,  it's hard to deny something you can prove concretely.  In this case privilege enshrined in law.

With these five rights, there is little that needs to be added to the already existing narrative. Janet Bloomfield does such a good job conveying her message. I however, would like to add five of my own, which I thought of after reading some of the comments.

6. Better protection under the law.  It comes as no surprise the protections that VAWA offers exclusively to women. For example, Rape Shield Law, applicable only to women since by definition rape does not include envelopment, only penetration. I'm not even sure there is a case where a man even tried to invoke this right. So as it stands when a woman is accusing someone or rape, her entire history pertaining to sexual activities cannot be called into evidence when investigating the accusation. And by the way this isn't getting any better, special interest groups are lobbying to have it apply legally to a wider variety of crimes where women are treated far better than men.

7.  Lighter sentencing for the same crime. Infanticide enshrined into law, that started treating killing of an infant child by its mother during the early months of life as a lesser crime than murder. It started in England in the first half of the 20th century, and guess what, only applies to mothers, aka women. Men you get the full murder sentencing.  (Speaking of infant death, I would imagine the law is going to become more lenient considering the complications it creates already for abortion policy.

 8. Affirmative Action. Now this applies because women as an entire group receive the benefit of the policy while men do not.  Basically, stating your sex on an application or resume, is now essentially considered an additional qualification for women, but not men, enforced by law.

9. Speaking of work, it's also now legal to only charge a man quarterly taxes for a start up business for at least the first year. That's right women are exempt from having to file taxes for the entire first year when they start up a small business enterprise.

10. Title IX of the civil rights act. This one is a little hard to fathom but according to the law the percentage of female athletes in the athletic program needs to match the percentage of girls in the student body and be equal to boys when it comes to benefits (funding, scholarships, etc.) What's interesting to note, is that it can be greater than what men receive on the basis that more women are part of the student body or that more women than men participate in a designated sport program like gymnastics. This applies to all athletic events including male dominated ones like wrestling and football. Fortunately for football it's a huge business even in college, so it has remained relatively untouched by the law, but wrestling however has not, and wrestling programs all over America have been suffering for it. This is why there is a huge debate over the effect of Title IX, because of the disparity between the two sports. It should be obvious however that like Affirmative Action, enshrined in law, is a policy that forces benefits and money for women's programs to match men's programs even if it means cutting spending for the men's programs so they are equal., but not the other way around.