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While white privilege and male privilege are important realities, I don't think they are the only things that matter. If it helps to hear this from a white mal
by JohnBooty 11y ago
While white privilege and male privilege are important realities, I don't think they are the only things that matter.
If it helps to hear this from a white male who is a believer in recognizing white privilege and male privilege: being white and/or being male are sometimes disadvantages too!
In most of America, you can't be male and teach young kids these days. People (parents) will wonder if you're a child molester, and get weirded out by the prospect of you helping kids go to the bathroom even though they'd be fine with a female teacher doing the same thing.
Recognizing something like that isn't incompatible with recognizing male privilege.
- Domenic_S 11y agoI don't disagree with any of that; every gender/race/etc has SOME kind of privilege attached to it. The point that you're [ missing | skirting ] though is many folks use the existence of privilege to ignore/bully/hate (eg, my YT link above, the white professor who got berated on campus, etc etc).
- JohnBooty 11y agoYes. Things can flow the other way as well. Did black kids pick some fights with me in school because I was white? Yes. It's a real thing that happens. It's a fallacy, of course, to dismiss a belief just because some of its believers are assholes, even if they're being assholes in the name of that cause. I mean really, no group or belief on this Earth could ever pass that criteria.