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In reply to the discussion: "Man-bashing." My favorite DU pule. [View all]McDiggy
(150 posts)I hate this gender stuff.
White men have privlidges. But so don't women. I think that's the think that irks white men that are told their lives are so easy. Talk male privilege to the men that died in Vietnam after being drafted. Talk make privilege to the men that can't get custody of their children because our society allows women to have custody almost by default. Or how about how male genital mutilation is still accepted and encouraged in the US. And on and on. There is male and female privilege in this country. If you sit down and think about it, really it is ridiculous for both genders what is expected of them and only them. This "you don't see your privilege" stuff cuts both ways.
Personally, I'm a white male. I was born in West Virginia, lived with two crack cocaine addicts for parents, went weeks without heat, sometimes no food, I was always looked at with suspicion by the local cops because of who my patents were...long story short, I fought and clawed my way to college, professional school, and now to the upper middle class with only student loans and the desire to not be my parents to keep me going. I've always wondered WTF this privilege I was supposed to have is. I'm pretty certain my path was a harder one than the daughter of a surgeon. But for some on DU, apparently I had it easier than every women alive because of the technicality of having white parents and having a penis.
I find the entire concept of this thread so very, very stupid.
I don't know, maybe we could all just stop stereotyping. Saying all white men have an easy life is pretty insulting and void of logic. Some white men do. Some white men don't. Some women are pretty danged privlidged.