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.

Comments

[brewergnome.livejournal.com]

Your average gym has a "male only" section called "free weights." Talk to many women who've spent any time there and you'll find they have to be "one of the boys" to do it.

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

That probably explains why I said that co-ed gyms have an old-boys-club feel - I tend to gravitate to free weights for non-cardio stuff because I was taught you get a more well-rounded workout that way (something I believe even more strongly now that I'm working on folks with musculoskeletal pain issues - it's the little muscles that fuck you up like woah).

[brewergnome.livejournal.com]

It is the home, and demesne of the brotards, and even those of us who don't fit that demographic often feel like interlopers. This is, of course, amplified by the bizarre societal belief that a woman who touches a free weight will instantly explode into She-Schwarzenegger.

[londo.livejournal.com]

There's a bit of a difference between "everyone will look at you funny and you are likely to feel uncomfortable" and being asked to leave before the police are called.

[brewergnome.livejournal.com]

Yes. There's also a difference between getting leered at and not. And being afraid for one's personal safety and not.