No aren't you being degraded because you're a woman. They are trying to degrade you because they disagree with you. They call you a whore because you're a woman. If you were a man raising issues about women's right's you'd be called a white knight.
I'm glad you point this out. I have heard it in the men's right's community being referred to as the Apex fallacy. That is the belief that since the top positions in the country are held by one particular group then it means the whole group is privileged. However this assumes that the few who are in charge care about the rest of their own group.
Since black people came into power in South Africa, by some accounts the income inequality has actually grown. In the end it doesn't matter what the demographic of the few is since the few don't usually care about anybody but themselves.
And therefore just as the Lobedu having only female rulers doesn't suddenly make woman a privileged group so a society having mainly male leaders in politics and business doesn't prove that males are the privileged group. The same group of males who rule America give men harsher sentences and didn't recognize male rape for ages. They drafted men for dubious wars and discarded them afterwards.
So counting the number of female politicians in relation to male politicians or counting the number of female CEOs in relation male CEOs really provides no useful means of determining privilege. What percentage of the US population do politicians and CEOs make? 0.1% maybe?
So when we talk about privilege we need to look at people's everyday lives and not look at the demographics of the 1%. And that is precisely what you do when you talk about "the structure of society".
And being a "white knight" isn't the same as being called a **** or a whore or a **** or a ***** because you raise your voice and are speaking and the men don't like what you're saying. And, again, if I was a man saying the same things they wouldn't go straight to calling me a **** or a whore etc would they?
So you pointing to there being a queen in South Africa can easily be moot and the rest of the women in society aren't as privileged as she.
Uh yeah it does. If you're the majority with power you're going to have more privileges. You're pointing to one woman who has a powerful position. Look here in the US with president Obama. He's one black man who has such great privilege and power but look at the rest of the black male's in society. How do they fare to him? They still are very low compared to this one person you can point to. It would be different if there was a more majority of the black male's in society had the same privileges as him but thus, here in the US, they do not yet have those same privileges.
And so why did you point to the woman being a queen than? Does that mean women in that country don't still have issues of lack of her privilege to deal with?
And in the structure in society men still have power. White men have more power than white women and black men. Black men have more power than black women and so on. As I said, we're all somewhere on the privilege pole. Where are you in comparison to people above and below you? You can't point to one person and say oh well there's no problem's here! You're pointing to one person vs a whole group of people. There's a reason why it's called the MAJORITY. One woman or man isn't a majority. So, of course, the MRA's would like this to be true so they don't have to reflect and challenge their own privileges in society and see there's still wrong issues whether it's with medical issues or issues dealing with labor. Men are a whole group. They're not just one person you can point to and say we're all cool! We're all equal now yay us! Uh no.
I think I'm pretty much out though. We're just both saying the same things so, unless there's something new, I'm going to say cheers and see ya round. It's been nice though.
Research into the various interpersonal, educational, socio-economic factors that best correlate with the gap has been conducted since the 1960s. At the very least.
You should read some.
Maybe you might want to jump in on this.
