The way a lot of SJ talks about people's imperfect strategies is very much a tone of "If I were you, I simply wouldn't have these problems in the first place". It's precisely the request to go away and die quietly.
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It's super tangential to what you were saying. I agree and disagree? Infantilization meaning-- people doing things for you because they think you're too weak to do them is a good example. A lot of other men I know call that a "privilege" but it's fucking condescending to me.
Yeah. I definitely wouldn't count that as an example of female privilege, although I think it might be an example where men and women are stuck on opposite ends of a spectrum both ends of which suck? (I think such examples are quite common)
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Like the male end of this problem is being treated as if it was unreasonable to want other people to do things for you because you're supposed to be strong enough to do them on your own. This is also bad.
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Absolutely! As an AFAB man, tho, I have experienced the former and let me tell you...wait I already did lol My point is that just because it looks like a privilege, doesn't mean it is. Plenty of women do not wish to be treated as though they cannot do things, too!
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I mean, I see it as another example of how patriarchy hurts everybody, even if it looks like it benefits women.
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I definitely agree that patriarchy hurts everyone, but I think the privilege framework is useful for analysing that it hurts different people in different ways.
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