Men are victims of men. Women are victims of men. On a rare occasion, women are the ones doing the violence but they are the exception. See if you can spot the pattern.
Are you implying that since most violence is committed by men, that a man who is victimized by another man is more deserving of it than a woman who is victimized by a man? Because otherwise I don't see how the gender of the aggressor is relevant.
Kind of baked into the concept of priviliege is the idea that different individuals get different benefits in different situations.
It's always strange to read attacks on "privilege" as a concept that are in themselves arguments for the concept. But I guess that's also a great example of the reason it's a useful concept.
Even your comment that women are more neurotic is a great example of something you believe is out of people's control, but rather than being glad you don't have that specific problem you are attacking people who do as if it was a personal failing they chose to exhibit and you're less neurotic because you just bravely chose not to be a woman, unlike those lazy slackers who didn't bother to make that simple change.
If it's not advantageous or neutral in all situations, it seems wrong to refer to it as "male privilege", i.e. the privilege of being male. Privileges are also something that is granted and which can be revoked, often as punishment and precisely because having it is desired, because it's advantageous.
I think more apt phrases would be "male condition" and "female condition", as subsets of the human condition.
igetspam|3 years ago
fluoridation|3 years ago
ZeroGravitas|3 years ago
It's always strange to read attacks on "privilege" as a concept that are in themselves arguments for the concept. But I guess that's also a great example of the reason it's a useful concept.
Even your comment that women are more neurotic is a great example of something you believe is out of people's control, but rather than being glad you don't have that specific problem you are attacking people who do as if it was a personal failing they chose to exhibit and you're less neurotic because you just bravely chose not to be a woman, unlike those lazy slackers who didn't bother to make that simple change.
fluoridation|3 years ago
I think more apt phrases would be "male condition" and "female condition", as subsets of the human condition.