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

[ultimatepsi.livejournal.com]

I'm going to respectfully disagree with you. I don't think there is an inherent problem with a "men's issues" group in today's world.

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

The name's a little off, at the very least.

[ultimatepsi.livejournal.com]

It sure isn't the one I would have picked.

The name is made of fail.

[earthdragon.livejournal.com]

It sounds like something drunk fratboys thought of.

I think the idea of things like mentoring being with awareness of social and cultural factors, as they exist, and making sure that people are aware that they have been, and can be challenged is good. Still, as a subset of males who are in collage, they may not be involved with and understanding of the ones who are the missing males in their statistics. I know there are major efforts to support and encourage women in engineering. Are they supporting men to enter the underrepresented field of elementary education?

As to the gym discussion, I am curious if the long term existence of Women-safe-spaces is altering the feel of co-ed spaces.

Re: The name is made of fail.

[swashbucklr]

The name is a pretty good indicator that they're doing it wrong.