Invisible Privilege OTD

[brynndragon]

Men in Power - Men's advocacy group at U of Chicago, which amongst a slew of privilege observation fail notes that women earn more college degrees than men yet fails to notice that women still make less money than men. This does not assure me that they're anything more than a group of guys who are afraid of losing their privilege in the exceedingly gradual evening of the playfield between the genders.

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[digitalsidhe.livejournal.com]

Your link text says "Men's advocacy ground"; I think you meant "group"?

Even the group's name is a *facepalm*. Why, yes, men kind of are "in power" already; hadn't they noticed the gender breakdowns of the Senate, the House, and the C-level executives of the largest N companies or the Fortune N, for any value of N you want to pick?

There are a few issues where men are lagging behind women*, but "power" is certainly not one of them. The undertones I get from this group's name are very much "We're in power, and we damned well want to maintain that power."

* Obviously, those few don't compare to the huge number of ways in which women still get the short end of the stick.

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

Thanks for catching that typo, and thanks for understanding what I'm still trying to find the words to express.