• guy@piefed.social
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    10 hours ago

    Yes, and that’s the point with male privilege? It’s an advantage without any other reason than the holder being male.

    Raising women to hold the same privilege is the same as removing it for men, if everyone has it it’s not a privilege.

    I think this is why the equality in society moves forward too slowly, not necessarily because men don’t want women to have equal rights and opportunities, but as you said the privileged are defensive because they don’t want to lose their privileges.

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      8 hours ago

      Stop arguing semmantics and understand what they’re saying! This is about communication, not being technically correct.

      FFS, your post is exactly portraying the problem.

      You even use a much better word: equality. Yet argue in favor of using a less effective word… Truly sad.

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        6 hours ago

        Semantics are important and I do understand what they are saying. Did you read my comment?

        it implies those people have something they shouldn’t have

        This for example. Male privilege is something men shouldn’t have since it’s based entirely on gender. So the privilege teeds to be abolished for equality to happen.

        And as I said, of course men gets defensive when its problematized and put in the spotlight, you may support equality but who wants to lose their advantages? 🤷

        Ironically enough your comment also focused on the semantics instead of the issue at hand… :)