MEN - Your personal experiences with gender discrimination

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We all know of the many double standards imposed by societal attitudes which are in place in large part merely because they perpetuate the gender box. This specific poll (and its message area!) is for men (and, for women, in the message area) to share their experiences of and about gender discrimination directed towards men. This particular side of discrimination (and gender prejudice) is an oft-neglected issue in discussions of commmon societal prejudices, puritanism of whatever sort, and discrimination. A few of the questions seem rather too specific perhaps, but they all inquire about circumstances created by fundamentally illogical and quite pure gender discrimination. And, please, to all people I urge- break out of the gender box, and into the so much more beautiful realm of rational discretion!

This poll is for men only, and at that only those of the age of 16 and older. Sorry all, but this is a specific poll about the experiences of a certain demographic regarding discrimination focused at them. Please understand, and thank you for your compliance. And remember the results of this poll and the message area of course are for everyone.

I do testify that I am a male of the age of 16 or older.

Have you ever been assumed to the agressor in a conflict by someone who knew about it only the genders of the participants?

Yes

In a brush with a local authority (be it hired security personnel or a SWAT team) have you been assessed to be more pressing a target for apprehension or attack because of your gender?

Yes

In gym or other public lockerrooms, or in school lockerrooms starting with high school and including all higher eduction, (for all students or just team members) were you and other males deemed less recipient of privacy?

Yes

In the assignment of quick and/or light, but menial, labor, (such as carrying light objects to somewhere) have you been so assigned, with or without being assigned as a class, for being male while available-to-be-drafted females were not also imposed upon?

Yes

Has the same situation as directly above ever occured for you with the assignment being only to the males, all the males, of a group of people, but not any of the females?

Yes

Have educational or work opportunities been denied to you because of your gender, such as in the execution of "reverse" discrimination policies similar to Affirmative Action?

Yes

Have you ever in a relationship been relegated to the role of campaigner for sex with your female partner, who plays the part of a sort of gatekeeper?

Yes

Are you often assumed to be a "pig" for proposing sex or speaking of it when you know that the same judgement would not be handed down to a female doing the same? Choose one.

Yes, often

Yes, sometimes

No, not often

In sexual encounters, do you feel that you are most often seen as by your partner, because of your gender, which of the following?

A stud

A walking dildo unfortunately given a brain, albeit a small one

An equal human being

Meat to be had

In relationships, have you had to take the role of the one to be punished for a fight between you and your female partner? (For example, being "put in the dog house")

Yes

Do you in your everyday life do anything to fight such societally acceptable prejudice when you are victimized by it? What about fighting its underlying cause?

I do protest in my everyday life.

I do nothing about such instances in my everyday life.

I do activist work to fight for equality and rationality on this or similar issues.

I do not do activist work to fight for equality and rationality on this or similar issues.

Please comment in the debate section!

I shall.

I shan't.

This poll was created on 2007-06-11 22:48:36 by hgfhgf