Male Privilege Checklist

Male Privilege Checklist

Analyzing a Written Argument

The general argument made by Peggy McIntosh in her work The Male Privilege Checklist is that men have advantages over women that are unwritten. More specifically McIntosh suggests that men do suffer too, but that women get the worst of it. She writes, “Pointing out that men are privileged in no way denies that bad things happen to men.” p. 367. In this passage, McIntosh is suggesting that men have a lot of unwritten advantages over women even though they do still have hardships. In conclusion, it is McIntosh’s belief that men have a male privilege checklist that gives them advantages over women.

Planning Your Own Argument

In my view, McIntosh is wrong because while some of those this are partially true she is stretching thing to make it seem like women are discriminated against. For example, women have not been involved in the work force until recently and during this time their number of employment has grown rapidly. It always seems like every minority uses the fact that they are a minority to blame the majority of the population for their misfortunes. Although McIntosh might object that women actually are oppressed against, I maintain that they are not. Therefore, I conclude that men and women have an equal “privilege checklist”.