I recently participated in a summer program at a university, focusing on international issues. Imagine my surprise when, on the second day, I was told we were all going to participate in a "privilege walk". For those of you who don't know what such a thing is, for us it consisted of forming a line in a public square, and taking a step forward or backwards depending on whether or not we were "privileged" in specific ways - which was measured by whether or not we felt certain statements were true for us. Examples included things like "Your home had lots of books in it growing up", or "People of your ethnicity are well-represented on TV". If the statement was true for you, you walked forward, signaling your "privilege". (Un)Surprisingly enough, all of the statements that referred to gender discrimination only discussed women's issues. Afterwards, we had a discussion about the activity, lead by one of the program's teachers. When asked for comments, I stated that I felt the activity was unfair. The teacher asked for me to be more specific. With great reluctance, anticipating that what I was going to say was going to earn me some dislike, I said that the activity was unfair towards men because it didn't address ways in which men are unfairly treated by society - I used suicide statistics as an example. Trying to derail the discussion I had opened up, the discussion leader responded that she wished there were more questions about mental health, as if suicide, which claims the lives of 3-4 times more men than women, was a gender-neutral issue. To my surprise, instead of negative responses, a bunch other students said that they felt the same way, and brought up other examples of such imbalances, such as divorce custody, before the discussion leader abruptly ended the discussion.