Male privilege is scientifically measurable via the Matrix of Domination. "Although Powell obtains the characteristics of a person that may not face oppression (upper-class, middle-aged, male), he is still discriminated against because of his race" Scroll to: Intersectionality of Gender & Class

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[–]SnowAssMan[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Follow the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_of_domination & read the sections headed: Benefits among gender, Wage gap among gender, & Representation among gender

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I agree that there are measurable pay and benefit gaps. Although, pay can differ significantly between two men doing the same work. For numerous external reasons.

College students graduating after 2007 earn significantly less on average than those who worked before the recession.

People who are laid off from work are less when hired, than employed people who find a new job.

Some people are more likely to pressure their employers to increase compensation. Men more often than women, but some men do so more than other men.

The employer has to then estimate it's work load with the effort of onboarding a replacement for the same pay if a person leaves, so it's not necessarily merit based.

Pay is a easily measured but it's not a reasonable privilege metric.

Privilege largely depends upon the views of the onlooker(s).

Characteristics associated with perception are moving targets.

[–]SnowAssMan[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Individuals aside, what about trends? There are a lot of pay gaps. Tall men get paid more than short men, social drinkers get paid more than teetotallers, fat men get paid more than thin ones & thin women get paid more than fat ones. Employers are human & subject to the same prejudices as all humans. It's obvious. Why you'd choose to believe that arbitrarily tall, fat, male social drinkers are just better at getting paid more, over common sense is incomprehensible.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Tall men get paid more than short men, social drinkers get paid more than teetotallers, fat men get paid more than thin ones & thin women get paid more than fat ones.

I'm not sure that what you are saying is correct.

Either way, the arbitrary nature of the rules that could/would be put into place to compensate for this would create more injustice. There are no easy solutions.

I don't think that the world is a fair place.

I also don't think it's supposed to be a fair.

All we can do is do our best to maximize justice, and minimize injustice.

We live in a world where we have seen advancement in some areas, and declines in others.

People who feel a responsibility to create a better society should continue the bucket brigade to fill the shared pools of justice by emptying the pools of injustice.

We need to discourage others from removing water from the justice pools, etc.

The only people who we can actually change are ourselves, but we can also get others to help us carry more water.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.