1/Men tend to be more systems-oriented, women more social-oriented. This is very general, and useful for understanding large populations. While it's fine to make general assumptions about people early on, the issue is when general information supersedes individual information.
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2/If you assume a woman is socially-oriented despite evidence that she's system-oriented, you're letting general information supersede individual information. It's important to use information at the level the information was collected, and not change levels (general to specific)
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3/This is one issue I have with discourse around privilege. Privilege is information about the general level - e.g. white people *tend* to have more money, more opportunities, than black people in the US. This is true. But I very often see people eagerly insist upon using-
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4/general information when individual information should be superceding; for example a poor white person addicted to opiates in an old forgotten mining town is as much privileged due to his race as an analytical woman is a social butterfly because of her sex.
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5/The lens of privilege is not a bad lens, it's simply not a very good one for understanding the life of the poor white opiate addict. The lens is a concept designed for large-scale, and using it for individual analysis just warps things and angers everybody.
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Replying to @Aella_Girl
The issue I have with the "white privilege" concept is that it is race specific when it doesn't need to be. You can talk about the exact same issues by saying "majority privilege".
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Replying to @OminonAmargana @Aella_Girl
Making it race specific just makes it easier for people to use it in the way you describe here.
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I think I value using language for clarity, and trying to avoid treating them as weaponized (unless you're diffusing the weapon). I don't care if it makes it easier for people to use as a weapon as long as it's a useful term.
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