Response to Equality vs Equity analogy

TracyMorganFreeman · 2014-09-05T16:02:33+00:00

Equality is leveling the playing field. Equity is fixing the score at the end of the game.

TsarKartoshka · 2014-09-05T20:19:12+00:00

Almost there. You got the two females right, but you need to dig out a 6 foot grave and have the men stand in their own coffins, so at the end of the game the women can put them down.

bednarowski · 2014-09-06T10:34:12+00:00

That concept of equality is what's wrong with today's world in my opinion. Equality should be about equal opportunities not equal result. By this picture you can get as high over the wall as the tallest guy/girl. But taller guy/girl can't be higher because they didn't get the opportuinty to get higer as smaller ones did. People aren't and won't be equal, thinking they can be is stupid so we should stop thinking about equal results and focus on equal opportunities.

DavidByron2 · 2014-09-05T15:35:04+00:00

Draw the women standing on the men's heads.

donald347 · 2014-09-05T19:33:33+00:00

I wish this was illustrated like the original. I want to share it

egalitarian-mra · 2014-09-05T14:28:15+00:00

Forgive my terrible 30 second drawing. Hopefully you can get the idea of the illustration.

Feminists have been posting this picture: http://imgur.com/NnWVIjZ implying that feminism helps everyone achieve equality, but I believe that "privilege" theory simplifies issues and leaves feminists with the impression that men are always more privileged than women.

Also, the original illustration can easily be viewed a little more literally to show criticism of the way short men are viewed in society. This shows a sort of "negative-privilege" or disadvantage that men (and women and everyone else) can experience that isn't often considered when talking about thing like male privilege.

jakelove12 · 2014-09-05T18:29:22+00:00

Why give shorter people more boxes to stand on so they can see over the wall, when we could just remove the wall in the first place?

People are never going to be "equal". I don't want an "equal" society. I want a society where there are differences. People are different. The ideal should be that these differences won't matter.

Why try to treat the symptoms of a problem, when we should be trying to remove the source of it? There should be no "wall" to have to look over.

Title	Response to Equality vs Equity analogy
Author	egalitarian-mra
Upvotes	100
Comments	41
Date	September 5, 2014 2:21 PM UTC (11 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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