Comments on: Mind-boggling example of male privilege http://whatprivilege.com/mind-boggling-example-of-male-privilege/ so you think you don't have any Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:46:15 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Hattie http://whatprivilege.com/mind-boggling-example-of-male-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-623 Hattie Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:53:28 +0000 http://whatprivilege.com/mind-boggling-example-of-male-privilege/#comment-623 What you say about the notion that men are beasts as reinforcing the patriarchy is an important insight. This idea helps me to understand why it is that women put up with what they do. What you say about the notion that men are beasts as reinforcing the patriarchy is an important insight.
This idea helps me to understand why it is that women put up with what they do.

]]> By: Purtek http://whatprivilege.com/mind-boggling-example-of-male-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-563 Purtek Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:01:08 +0000 http://whatprivilege.com/mind-boggling-example-of-male-privilege/#comment-563 A thousand 'words'. Mind-boggling is such an accurate way to describe this, because my brain just frazzles right over whenever I hear this argument, which is *a lot*. I genuinely don't know where to start in conversations with people like this, because comments like this "it will always be seen as attacking and hostile to men, nor inclusive to their suffering or needs." smack so hard of privilege, but it's lose-lose to engage with it, because if I acknowledge 'suffering and needs' it's coddling a sense of entitlement, but pointing that out is clearly me being a hostile feminist bitch. A thousand ‘words’. Mind-boggling is such an accurate way to describe this, because my brain just frazzles right over whenever I hear this argument, which is *a lot*.

I genuinely don’t know where to start in conversations with people like this, because comments like this “it will always be seen as attacking and hostile to men, nor inclusive to their suffering or needs.” smack so hard of privilege, but it’s lose-lose to engage with it, because if I acknowledge ’suffering and needs’ it’s coddling a sense of entitlement, but pointing that out is clearly me being a hostile feminist bitch.

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