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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[brewergnome.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, we had a men's group at Carleton. It was run by a friend of mine and was created not as a counterpoint to the women's group, but as a unique entity. It was used to talk about exactly things like the fact that many "men's spaces" like gyms are really "certain type of men's spaces" and Fatherhood and euch.

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

That sounds pretty darn awesome, actually. So what did you call the group anyway? ;P

[brewergnome.livejournal.com]

::frowns::

AH right.

Men's Issues Awareness... M.I.A.

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

Now *that's* how you name a men's group! Although the acronym could be considered unfortunate. . . ;P

[brewergnome.livejournal.com]

It was purposeful. Pointing out that a real discussion of Men's Issues (rather than WAH WAH) has been, in fact, missing in action.