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In reply to the discussion: "Man-bashing." My favorite DU pule. [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Whoever you chose to cut and paste from (no doubt some kind of echo chamber where those ideas aren't challenged) obviously has a poor understanding of what privilege is and isn't and you only get the perspective from one side of the coin. Civil rights aren't privilege, they are rights. That eliminates quite a few from your list. Some of the things on your list are gross misrepresentations. Others are simply conjecture. Others are extreme exaggerations. Others exclude homosexual men in order to narrow the group and make it sound better. Others single out very small subsets of women which has little to do with how the entire gender is privileged or not. Others identify problems that women face, while ignoring reciprocal problems that men face. No examples of female privilege are included like longevity, incarceration, access to health care, homelessness, parental custodianship, disease, alcohol and drug addiction, suicide, occupational injuries, occupational deaths, crime victimization, access to education, and dozens more. You know, most of the things that actually primarily define social inequity rather than whether the toilet seat gets left up or down or whether someone gets offended while the other side is told to "man up" (as seen on DU). The last one is the best. Since the problem is "male privilege" if I don't accept the argument for "male privilege" then I must be part of the problem. Circular reasoning at it's finest.