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Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)
39	Lived Experience	discussion	Imakeameanpancake	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	29/10/25 11:11 PM

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2	Lived Experience Yeah, it does not feel like progress to go back to 1970s gender inequality in higher education but with the ratio flipped. I don't understand how people don't see this as a massive problem. Unfortunately, I can't even raise this with people in real life, at least not in a professional setting, because I know I will be labelled as or suspected of being a misogynist, a whiner, or at worst an incel. It's going to keep getting worse before it gets better sadly.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	03/11/25 09:16 PM
2	Lived Experience Yeah, it's pretty disgraceful behaviour. I understand empathising with your ancestors though, in a specific way. Like this happened to my great grandmother and that makes me sad. But to transfer that pain and blame people alive today is psychotic. I think the nuance between historical injustice which led to material benefit (or disadvantage) to people alive today and historical injustice which did not, can be difficult for people to differentiate. Like if my women ancestors suffered prejudice th…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	31/10/25 04:12 AM
8	Lived Experience Yeah absolutely, young women seem to think only they have a stake in the oppression of women from 50-100 years ago, as if men don't also have mothers. Your gender isn't an identity in the same way religion or ethnicity is. Both men and women are inextricably linked, and all have ancestors from both genders. Women born today have benefitted from their male ancestor's privilege just as much as men born today.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	31/10/25 12:03 AM
5	Lived Experience Yeah, that really just isn't how it works aye. Maybe the people it happens to directly are motivated to ensure it doesn't happen to others, but their decedents, even just one generation down often seem to engage in the behavior which harmed their parents but direct it against a different group. Older feminists don't typically engage in the kind of retributive rhetoric that younger feminists do imo.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	31/10/25 12:00 AM
5	Lived Experience I agree people devalue knowledge and experience as opposed to lived experience. For example, I think a criminologist or criminal psychologist knows far more about the drivers of crime than a criminal but i've seen people argue otherwise. I do think it's a useful term however to differentiate between experience gained through study and observation as opposed to experience gained by living as or through something.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	30/10/25 10:17 PM
1	Lived Experience It doesn't. You haven't explained why you need the "lived". If you had written, "[...] but it is not the experience of being a criminal", it would have exactly the same meaning. You can't experience without being alive, i.e., living it. The word "being" in your example sentence is doing the same work as "lived" in the phrase "lived experience". "lived experience" is just another of way of saying, "my experience being X" A criminal lawyer has experience of criminal behavior, but it is not a "live…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	30/10/25 09:59 PM
1	Lived Experience I didn't say I have intimate knowledge, I said criminal lawyers do. They have more than knowledge because they have met many hundreds if not thousands of defendants, studied their offending and their lives, talked to the victims, the police, etc. That goes beyond knowledge and into experience, but it is not a lived experience of being a criminal. I hope that makes the distinction clearer.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	30/10/25 09:00 PM
1	Lived Experience You can say "my lived experience" another person's experience is not lived by the author. Although you can have experience in things without having lived them. For example, criminal lawyers have intimate knowledge of criminal offending despite usually not having lived that experience.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	30/10/25 08:29 PM
1	Lived Experience Probably should have, I have a tendency to drop syntax or whatever.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	30/10/25 08:25 PM
3	Lived Experience I'm sure on some level it does but I'm not conscious of it, or at least not making a conscious choice to change my approach. I definitely feel more uncomfortable being the only man which undermines my social ability. I'm sure it's the same for women in male dominated spaces. The thing is there aren't many spaces where a women will be the only women anymore. Outnumbered yes but to be truly the only one of your gender is a crazy feeling, especially every day. I often read about women's experience …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	30/10/25 08:22 PM
1	Lived Experience Knowledge of other people's experience :0.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	30/10/25 08:15 PM