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Posted by denny, Thu Jul-06-17 07:58 PM
If you genuinely can't think of ONE inherited advantage you have as a male in the context of gender than you are a major player in the oppression olympics and probably have a streak of pathological self-righteousness.

I'll also agree with what Buddy said in that EVERY identity group has advantages and disadvantages (I'm not asserting that they 'equal out'...some groups have more privilege/burden than others in the aggregate).

Privilege rhetoric is an extremely useful analytical tool in sociology. It's also prone to be used for pathological and malevolent ends and can be used as a tool for self-victimization. Again....if you can't think of ONE inherited advantage you have in being male....then either you aren't trying hard enough.....Or you are incapable of seeing yourself as ANYTHING other than a victim which is a very dangerous and self-sabotaging way to see the world.