Most of these "privileges" are the privileges of the majority. Majorities and minorities are a fact of life, whether you distinguish gender, education, skillse

Most of these "privileges" are the privileges of the majority. Majorities and minorities are a fact of life, whether you distinguish gender, education, skillsets, race, age, religion, fitness, lifestyle, etc. i.e. there is not much specific about maleness or programming. Programming happens to be majority male, so it's easy to think this checklist is more specific than it really is. 1. Any majority 2. Any majority 3. Not true. Male partner does not get a free nepotism pass 4. Consider a male nurse, appreciating McSteamy. 5. Consider a technician in coveralls. Janitor? 6. Any majority 7. Reasonable. c.f. Horny 8. Any majority 9. Reasonable. c.f. Pilates / Yoga 10. Reasonable. Assholes exist 11. Reasonable. c.f. Pilates / Yoga 12. Asinine. 13. Context? c.f. Pilates / Yoga 14. Asinine. Only distracts females? Products and systems are anthropomorphized female as well. 15. Asinine. I've witnessed open door talks. 16. Completely asinine. How on earth could one possibly sleep one's way into a bug fix? Assholes exist. 17. There exist male programmers who are not appreciated for their professional competence. There exist male employees who are appreciated for their dispute resolution skills. 18. Completely asinine. More context needed. 19. Asinine. Computer programmers are unattractive dorks who live in their parents' basement. 20. Any majority. 21. Unfounded. 22. Reasonable. c.f. Sex and the City 23. Unfounded. c.f. skateboarding 24. Unfounded. c.f. Porcelain dolls 25. Unfounded. it happens both ways 26. Asinine. We all have to Dress For Work. 27. Unfounded. e.g. DHH [citation needed, but it can't be too hard to find] 28. Straw man. Not the same as LOLcats. False dichotomy regarding colleague perspective. Did anyone really laugh at this? 29. Reasonable, but is there any evidence any attendee saw another attendee primarily as a sex object? 30. Any majority. c.f. male nurse 31. Completely unfounded. 32. Reasonable. c.f. Joe Sixpack 33. Reasonable. c.f. Forums / 4chan 34. Unfounded. Why are males exempt from this discomfort? 35. Unfounded. Males are not exempt from this worry. 36. Asinine. Everyone without a chip on her shoulder has this freedom. 37. Straw man. *Pure* meritocracy, really? 38. Completely unfounded. Males are in no way exempt from death threats. e.g. crypto / security researchers 39. Dubious. Let's see the responses to this very comment ;) 40. Dubious. c.f. the privilege to promote the privilege of the male programmer As a numbered wall o' text, it looks formidable, but a lot of these items are mere rephrasing or restatements of the same complaint (valid or not). I must admit this list is thought provoking, and it is good to enumerate these sorts of things. However, there are some extremely weak claims here, and their very presence undermines the overall effort. I was interested to know just how privileged I was, but after scanning a few of these, it's hard to take the author seriously.