Our guy friends don't delude us with lies and bullshit. Men might not be good at communicating with women, but they are pretty straightforward and open with other men about reality.
If a man is fat his friends will tell him he's fat and to lose weight to make his partner happier. If a man doesn't strive hard enough to provide for themselves, and subsequently a mate, us men will point blank say it to other men and call them out.
We don't sugar coat or tell them they deserve a good partner when they don't put in the effort.
Many women seem to literally lie to their friends or avoid tough discussions that would improve their friends, whereas with men we admit to the facts and don't lie to our friends.
Men don't try to make other men think that mediocrity is acceptable, but that's all you see from most women support groups. You'll never see a fat/curvy guy on a male fitness magazine, the reality is very straightforward, but every day today women magazines are adopting curvy/fat women on them. Mediocrity is the new norm for women, whereas men never justify mediocrity to other men. We tell other men, "if you don't continue to improve you'll fail to find a suitable mate and you won't be happy long-run" whereas women tend to avoid this tough conversation and tend to make all women set unrealistic and high expectations of a partner that they haven't earned.
Male privilege that is very real in 2022 is that men don't delude other men, whereas women often allow themselves to delude their friends. Most men live in reality in this regard, women live in emotions. Men aren't deluded into thinking that their failures are acceptable and that mediocrity is alright, whereas women today literally think it's good to lie to their friends and avoid the reality and tough conversations about improvement.
Whereas women have the option to become strong and independent, and celebrate it in songs and on magazine covers, it's simply a requirement to be alive as a male. We don't praise those who are, we simply look down on males who aren't. There are no songs of men singing about becoming strong and independent, it's just a constant state of nature for men, no sugarcoating it.
This is a huge male privilege because we can be honest and have the tough (and needed) conversations with our male friends that help them improve, whereas many women (not all, but many in today's society) will never hear these truths and hence they are deluded into thinking that not improving is a viable option. Men have the privilege of being able to talk the tough truth whereas women are sheltered from the reality and live in emotional and mediocrity justification land.
This is not the case 100% for all men and women, but true more than not for sure.