ACTUALLY:
Female privilege is not having to cut your hair short in order to look presentable to the rest of society.
Some women like to cut their hair short, and often they’ll encounter questions or accusations when they do. “Is she a lesbian?” “She looks like a dyke.” “She looks like a boy now.” And the funny part is that it doesn’t matter how long or short your hair is! Your gender isn’t magically attached to your hair, that you somehow shed your womanhood when you cut it. And there are some females who do keep their hair short because they identify as men. Like I said, gender is about how you identify - certainly not about how others identify you based on visual cues.
When a man has long hair, it’s true that he might be accused of looking dirty or unpolished, but he probably won’t face serious and hostile accusations of having a different gender identity or sexual orientation based on something as trivial as his hair length.
Jean Seberg and Emma Watson are two undeniably beautiful ladies who still got a lot of flack for cutting their hair short. But! The pixie cut has been becoming more popular - even with effeminate women.
Now, because I’m a rational person, I’d like to award SOME credit to the one very real privilege I’ve always believed women actually do have over men, although it’d take some more thought for me to fully understand it. I think that ThisIsFemalePrivilege may have meant this on some level, so gold star for effort. There are more ways to express femininity than there are to express masculinity, meaning that men may often feel more pressure to behave within rigid gender guidelines than women feel, especially with regard to the expression of emotions, dress, competition, and self-preservation (on a physical level and financial level). From birth it seems, there are a lot of expectations on men to deny themselves in favor of “being a man,” and I want to note that I do understand this problem and I do sympathize. This blog is not to deny that there aren’t a few shitty catches to being the privileged gender - but it’s important to keep in mind that females are not quite on equal footing with men, and it’s important to keep noticing these inequalities and trying to fight them.
