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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I think to talk about privilege productively, white people want acknowledgement that sometimes privilege is not the most useful lens to understand their experiences through. After that then you can use it to help understand the experiences they've had that *do* apply.
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For example, saying "I acknowledge that you as a woman are not necessarily social and emotional! But there's likely at least some amount of experiences in your life that have been informed by the general experiences of womanhood, and I want to talk about those."
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