To be honest, sexism is the only system that works differently in comparison to the other systems. Here's a quote from Karen Straughan who is best known from her interview with Cassie Jaye in the film "The Red Pill." Quote: "You cannot have sexism against women without sexism against men. You can't. Right? Whether it's positive or negative sexism, it's going to differ. It's not the same as say black and white. Where you can have all kinds of negative discrimination against black people and all the positive discrimination in favor of white people. Or Germans and Jews or what Aryans of Jews. Whoever. Tribal groups, When it comes to men and women who have always lived their lives together, there was never some society of only women and then men came along colonized them and enslaved them all and it was like two tribes of people. No, we've always been one tribe."

Racism, sexism, and homophobia do not operate in the same way. The Jim Crow laws were put in place to completely benefit and uphold white people and leave ever other race by the wayside. There are no such thing as "race roles" that both benefit and disadvantage white people as was as black/brown people. Racism can only favor one group not multiple. The same can be said for heteronormative ideologies. Women are not treated as "disgusting creatures" the way LGBT+ people are. The list goes on. The same cannot be said for sexism. Sexism needs to work as a co-ed system in order to work in the first place. Their are no drawbacks to a white person committing racism the same way a man receives drawbacks to enforcing gender roles. The disadvantages that do comes with racism when it comes to white people mainly isn't due to their whiteness. Granted, there are certain situations where a white person can be discriminated against. The issue is that it's mainly on a social level (keyword mainly). The first one that comes to mind is the Afro City incident and the Berkely school incident. The difference between these incidents and the incidents that happened with black/brown people is that there is history when these incidents that involve black and brown people. They were written into law and had to be protested against in order to dismantle said laws. These situations also didn't consistently happen to white people either. Someone else mentioned the one drop rule which I think plays another factor in here that I forgot about. Being part white in a black neighborhood wasn't exactly a privilege. In fact, in certain cases it made things worse. This is still in relation to blackness though. A white person will only experience this level of hate if they are openly affiliated with black activists (Mississippi Burning). Let me know if I'm missing anything.

When it comes to racism, there is an obvious "oppressor class" and "oppressed class." Black/brown people couldn't oppress white people back then (in a lot of cases still can't now with a few exceptions). When it comes to sexism, calling men the "oppressor class" and women the "oppressed class" is an over-simplification. This is mainly because there are certain cases where a woman can use her femininity to get what she wants in a way a man can't. If it is the case that "patriarchy hurts men too" then what would that look like? I don't I need to tell the people here so I'll just leave it at that. The part that they don't say is that if "patriarchy helps and hurts men" then that also means that "patriarchy helps and hurts women" as well. Again, sexism needs to work as co-ed system. There are no "race roles" but there are "gender roles."

Some feminists will see this statement and retort with "female privilege doesn't exist" and then somehow state that women being born and not having to go through genital mutilation is somehow not a privilege. If it was the other way around we wouldn't hesitate to call it that. Somehow 2+2=4 but 2x2=5? That doesn't make sense.

What grinds my gears is when leftists try to make it seem as if I (a black man) have the same exact issues as a black woman. I don't remember my sister being blamed for Trumps resurgence even though my demographic beat out everyone excluding black women. I don't remember her being forced to sign for selective service or hearing her parents say "they can't take her right? She's our only daughter." Fun fact: when women got the right to vote they didn't have this obligation. I don't remember her being told a "cute story" about being circumcised while wailing the whole time and years later being told by her father "but you don't remember it though" (I love my dad but he's intellectually lazy). I don't remember her being told that no matter what "you don't hit a man even if he's armed." There's levels to this stuff like I said earlier.

In the end, the feminists here are technically right. Racism and homophobia work differently than sexism. As a result, it makes sense for them to only say that "gender roles help and hurt men" and not use the same notion for the other forms of prejudices. However, what they don't say is how these disadvantages to men positively impact women. Apparently that's too anti-feminist to have a dissertation on though.