13172841, I've repeated what I meant multiple times. I said a man that's chosen
Posted by kfine, Wed Jul-12-17 05:03 AM
to abandon his children has exercised male privilege. I also said that perhaps the conversation would be different if maternal abandonment was as prevalent as paternal abandonment (it's not).
>Privilege moreso than anything is about empowerment. A black
>man cannot empower himself by leaving his family, because he
>cannot empower the next generation and so on. Making privilege
>about "I can do this and you can't" and leaving it there is
>dangerous thinking.
You can call my interpretation whatever kind of thinking you want. At least it aligns with the actual definition of privilege:
privilege
noun priv·i·lege \ˈpriv-lij, ˈpri-və-\
a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or AVAILABLE ONLY TO A PARTICULAR PERSON OR GROUP OF PEOPLE.
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