Male Privilege, helpfully explained by a white dude

[shaayecanaan]

300. My original post

objected to the notion that you can adequately sum up privilege as a scrabble-game series of labels: male privilege, white privelege, cis privilege and whatever else that the New Left has managed to invent since I was at university.

Most of these labels are problematic to some degree. Even white privilege implies that there is some permanent curse or disability that attaches to being non-white, whereas to the extent that white privilege exists it is generally because white people have all the money. That has remained more or less constant for the last 600 years, although in the next century it is likely that India and China will replace North America and Europe as the superpowers. Presumably then the New Left will have to add "Chinese privilege" and "Indian privilege" to its list of labels.

Certainly, being male means one is far less likely to be raped, although to male rape victim that probably doesnt mean very much. Its probably an interesting question for the New Left: does a male rape victim still enjoy male privilege?