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So the only opinions that matter are that of straight men? The only reason a woman looks nice is for them?
It's unreasonable to categorize this as an example of male privilege when men have little to do with it.
That's not what privilege means. It's not that men are at fault, although patriarchy as a whole plays a role in it. It's that men obliviously benefit from something other people, purely because of social reasons tied to gender, have problems with.
That's what privilege is. White privilege, for instance, isn't saying that every white person is responsible for systematic racism, it means they don't have to experience systematic racism, which means they get to pretend it's not a problem. Because it isn't, for them.
OP has been grossly misunderstood by the reply and nearly everyone here.
Today I learned that simply allowing somebody else to be and look like they want to is privilege. Pray tell, kind being, how does one avoid this sort of privilege? Should I be pushing my opinion on everything with ears?