Check you Privilege - Good comment on 2x about how women forget they have privilege

mellowgreen · 2011-07-18T19:34:34+00:00

I thought the article was hilarious, because it was probably unintentional that the entire thing could also be applied to female privilege. There are differences between the genders, like dogs and lizards, which lead to privilege. I thought it was hilarious how they were talking about how the privileged class can be completely unaware, or even in denial, about the privilege. That is how I see women about female privilege. I'm reminded about male privilege all the time, and keep it in my mind, but women don't seem to care about their privilege. They continue to abuse men without expecting repercussions, and things like that.

Feminists would want the dog to just deal with having the temperature set to rainforest levels, such that he is not comfortable and maybe even life-threateningly hot, so that the lizard can have what she wants. The dog should have to deal with it because he was not oppressed all this time, so now it's his turn to be the oppressed class. Why can't we just find a compromise, a temperature in the middle which is good for both, but not perfect for either?

disposable_human · 2011-07-18T21:55:04+00:00

That person sickens me. ALMOST reasonable. Acknowledges a specific, systemic legal way men are oppressed... then says women have it worse. Then she says that it's not about saying who has it worse, and that she won't give one reason.

They're oppressed because they sometimes deal with cat calls. We're oppressed because if we feel offended by cat calls or groping, we're publicly shamed as gay.

They're oppressed because rape happens to women overseas. They know because of the dozens of international agencies devoted to the topic. We're oppressed because it may or may not (it does, probably more than it does to women) happen to men... but no one will risk looking into it because they're afraid money will be diverted away from women.

I could go on and fucking on. Give me one way men are more privileged than women in any category or field. This is false equivalence and what they like to call a 'silencing tactic'.

I would have posted this as a direct reply to her, but I couldn't think of a way to do so gingerly and tactfully enough to avoid a massive downvote barrage.

Title	Check you Privilege - Good comment on 2x about how women forget they have privilege
Author	mellowgreen
Upvotes	5
Comments	4
Date	July 18, 2011 7:31 PM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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