moviefreakedmind said:
Circumcision is a bad example. I don’t think people should do it to their kids, but it has an astronomically low probability of complications and no lasting damage.
I just don’t buy the idea that women have it so much worse than men in the United States. On certain things they do, but on others they don’t. Men are more likely to be homeless, more likely to be murdered, more likely to kill themselves, and judging by the fact that it gets almost no attention compared to the representation of women in STEM fields, those issues must be ingrained into American society just as much if not more. As Jeebus pointed out, sexual harassment happens to men too. It happens to women more, but as for yhx’s point about not seeing headlines about sexual harassment of men, I’d guess that it stems from the fact that almost nobody fucking cares when men get harassed, almost to the point of it not even being worth telling anyone about it. Anyway, the main reason I hate all of this “privilege” nonsense and immediately disregard most of the integrity of anyone who uses it as an counterargument is that it disregards the important nuances in the human condition. I’m sure a white kid with childhood schizophrenia (one of the most debilitating strands of schizophrenia) would be much better off (or dare I say, privileged) if he were a mentally healthy black kid, or a woman, or an immigrant. There are a lot of white people are way poorer than most black people, and they have no opportunities for social mobility. Instead of acknowledging that problems of poverty aren’t exclusive to a single race, even if it may disproportionately affect nonwhite races, the response is essentially that “white people”, every single one of them, are privileged and should essentially be disregarded while we sort out the “real issues” facing women and people of other races.
Exactly on point. Which is why when someone tells a white person that they are participating in a group crime/injustice (white privilge) and it’s based solely on their skin color, it inherently is racist.
