Nearly 30% of men say progress toward gender equality has come at their expense, according to new report

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[–]Smurfette 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

Men don’t realize that their privilege comes at the expense of women. White men in particular don’t realize that their privilege comes at the expense of everyone else.

[–]Dragonerne 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

White women will feel what equality feels like when the privilege of white men and women has to be shared with the rest of the world.

If you or your partner currently earns more than $10.000 a year, you will get to know what equality means.

[–]GConly 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This isn't a zero sum game you know. The increase in wealth in one area isn't necessarily at the expense of another.

In fact increasing the wealth, and productivity, of lower earners decreases spending on welfare by the higher earners. It's an all round win.

You should take a look at Hans Rosling's 'The joy of stats' on YouTube. The income of just about everyone on the planet has been going up for decades. This would not be possible if there was a set amount that got divided up.

There's no reason to think you need to yoink wealth from one group to give it to another. They can make their own given the right environment.

White people don't even have the highest incomes as a group in America. Some African immigrant groups have higher incomes than white average, and East Asian and Indians also out earn them. Bit a blow to the whole white privilege BS.

Why not say "Asian/Jewish women will feel that equality?"

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Indian and Chinese American households have almost double the mean household income of white households. They are also less than 2% of the population so it doesn’t count since they also don’t have political influence.

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

This is a cope. White women will get to experience the exact same loss of privilege that these 30% of men have.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Not really. White women have privilege for being white, but are oppressed for being female. Therefore, that "privilege" is barely a scrap of human rights and dignity and cannot be "shared" via a zero sum game but rather extended to women of color et al.