Well some of you sure are not getting it, its obvious you have never experienced being like some sort of second class citizen. What you call male privilege is called machism everywhere else that is not the US (which by the way some of you should also look outside the US, the world is not only the US, even if most of you here are from there).
Machism and male privilege go hand in hand but can be understood differently, and while the terms are related, they are not exactly the same thing as they dont usually transmit the same meaning to most people, it seems, and some of your responses are a good example of this.
You understand male privilege as if it was somekind of easier life circumstance where you get anything just because of your condition of male. Well, no, this is not the case, obviousbly its not what we are talking about here.
Machism, which is a word that defines the issue much better, means basically that society is made for men to rule over women, and the more typical "macho" you are understood to be, the better it will go for you.
Essentially, we are talking about patriarchy here, where men are supossed to be in charge of everything, be taken seriously and respected, and women are supossed to be on a second scene, being treated as less because of their condition of being female, and suppossed to be submissive to men.
So no, it does not mean you don't have to work hard or put effort, it means that you, just because you are male, will always be granted a position above a female. That is machism, patriarchy, male privilege...
