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> Male privilege exists. That is a power dynamic over women This doesn't necessarily follow, because insofar as male privilege exists, so does female privilege
by tomp 9y ago
> Male privilege exists. That is a power dynamic over women
This doesn't necessarily follow, because insofar as male privilege exists, so does female privilege (such as no draft, "women and children first", the "women are wonderful " effect and the fact that women represent the majority of the voting base), so it's really hard to say one sex is more privileged than the other, rather than just privileged differently.
- tunesmith 9y agoThanks for the comment, I intended it to implicitly come across that I was speaking about employment, where male privilege exceeds female privilege.
- Inconel 9y agoNot to be dismissive of your comment, but I think the topic of privilege deserves more nuance than you are giving it. Privilege doesn't exist as a binary state, where some people enjoy privilege and others do not, we all enjoy some privilege, although obviously of varying degrees. Privilege doesn't stop just at men or women, white or non-white, there are numerous combinations of privilege that need to be taken into account. > where male privilege exceeds female privilege. I'm not sure I can categorically agree with this. While male privilege exists over women, I find it ludicrous to suggest that white women are less privileged overall than black men, despite black men benefiting from male privilege. I think many of the misunderstandings that occur when discussing privilege come about due to using only a few easily categorized traits in defining privileges, rather than a broader set that also include things like socio-economic conditions, health, upbringing, and a variety of personality or physical traits.
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- Dylan16807 9y ago> it's really hard to say one sex is more privileged than the other, rather than just privileged differently I don't think it's that hard. There are unfair privileges to either gender, but the male ones are vastly larger.
- tomp 9y ago> but the male ones are vastly larger This kind of claim (regardless of which direction you're making the claim in) ony makes sense if you reduce "privilege" into a single dimension. Which I don't think you can.
- Dylan16807 9y agoNo it doesn't. 500-dimensional vectors have lengths.