Rant

[celemon]

In the middle of work overload, house to renovate, and friends in crisis all over the place, I have to run into someone who does the 'equality has gone too far' thing. In honour of my total neural overload at this point, I shall now bang my head on the wall, metaphorically, for fear of soon doing so literally. Rant ahead.

Firstly, equality cannot '

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[smarriveurr]

Biggest problem with privilege is that one of the main privileges is being the default - so while everyone not in the privileged group is constantly reminded of the privileges certain people take for granted, that group sees no real basis for comparison.

Likewise, plenty of people are convinced that their privileged status is sacrosanct - somehow, everyone's going to "be equal" without taking away the privileges that they take for granted, and anything that threatens those privileges is, of course Going Too Far, because equality shouldn't require "lowering" anybody, see, and surely everyone can all have just as much without making you give up what you haven't earned!

[celemon]

But of course they earned it! Just by being the fantastic person they are, they have personally earned all their privileges, which have absolutely nothing to do with their simply belonging to a privileged group. The Ebil Feminists are just trying to take away their rightful rewards.

Anyway, women are more privileged because we get more sex (how do women get more straight sex than men, btw?) - if I had a dollar for everytime I've heard that argument I'd be considerably closer to retirement. I'd happily trade that privilege for everything else that men get and I don't, like being able to walk down the street without having my body commented on (yes, laddies, I have tits. surprise.).

[smarriveurr]

Next time someone brings it up, feel free to agree that women do get more sex than men. You can tell, because sometimes women get sex they don't even want, and men seldom get sex they don't want.

Of course, they aren't thinking that. Mainly they're thinking that women are the Gatekeepers of Sex, because men want more sex than women - again, you can tell, because they ask women to have sex, and the women say no! A woman, you see, can get laid any time she wants, because men will proposition women for sex all the time, with no preamble or cause, and all women have to do is accede to one of those requests if they want sex - that's how it works, right? *eyeroll*

[celemon]

Ouch! That was a more brutal argument that I have ever come up with - and i'm not exactly shy about brutal arguments. Will tuck it away for future reference...

In a lot of at least American men's eyes, sex seems to be something women have and which men need to buy, trick, or force from them. I find that immensely sad.