Men are not one class
A male president does not give a homeless man a share of presidential power. A male billionaire does not make a worker a co-owner of capital.
Patriarchy
We are told that modern society was built by men for men. Yet male “privilege” vanishes when it is time to serve, fight, die at work, lose children after divorce, fund the welfare state, and die younger.
Count the full price of sex.
Apply one standard. If a difference favoring men proves systemic privilege, a difference favoring women cannot be dismissed as care, tradition, or biology.
Count rights together with duties. Any other balance sheet is designed to hide the male cost.
Three starting points
Section titled “Three starting points”Downward inequality is hidden
Men dominate workplace deaths, prisons, homelessness, homicide victims, and suicides. Those gaps demand a political answer too.
A duty can discriminate
Special protection for women is called progress. A sex-specific male burden is passed off as the natural order.
Encyclopedia
Section titled “Encyclopedia”Critique is not the point of a war with women. The point is a family where a man and a woman stop treating each other as enemies and build something together.
Patriarchy is a demand to stop presenting a one-sided privilege count as a complete picture of society.