I Cannot Believe I Just Saw A Discussion Here Regarding The Downtrodden White Male...

[JAbuchan08]

115. Just speaking anecdotally, but...

I'm returning to school to complete my undergraduate degree (I had to drop out over financial considerations ten years ago and am finally making it back) In every single one of my classes so far at least 70% of the students have been female. It may be true that men hold a financial advantage over women, but I think it's worth encouraging specific programs to engage and educate men.

I believe in the advancement of ALL people. I believe in gender equality and I believe in racial equality. I am also not so naive as to think that women have an advantage over men or that minorities have it better than whites. Having ( I hope) covered my ass with those qualifiers this is the major problem I see with identity politics: there is obviously a problem with male college enrollment, but no one wants to deal with it, ostensibly because men are still advantaged in this society, but the fact that men are generally advantaged in our society shouldn't be an excuse to ignore those areas in which men are disadvantaged - such as in education, or family court or any other area where gender biases unfairly effect men.

Just to be clear: NOT to the exclusion of fixing the areas where gender biases affect women negatively.

I focused mostly on gender, but the general rule applies to racial politics as well; however the disparities between minorities and white males are much more severe in most areas so there aren't really any places where whites are falling behind minorities and need affirmative action to balance that.

However I would caution that, while I know that white people and white men in particular have tremendous advantages in this society; that sometimes the discussion of those advantages seems to extend those generalizations to ALL white people and can trend toward villainization even if that is not what is intended.