> Some geeks certainly deny the sexism -- he gives an example of one -- so I think an article on male privilege has to start out there. How is sexism a privile

> Some geeks certainly deny the sexism -- he gives an example of one -- so I think an article on male privilege has to start out there. How is sexism a privilege? Sexism may be a bias, or as the grandparent hypothesizes, a lack of empathy; Privilege may arise as a result of these biases (just as much as it would arise as a result of any other bias, against rural people, people with non-majority ethnicity, against unattached males over a certain age, etc.), but contrary to the title, the article is about sexism and not about privilege.