Profs: Acknowledging Your Male Privilege Not Good Enough
When it comes to appeasing the left, it’s never enough.
Nathan Rubbelke of the College Fix reports.
Professors: Acknowledging your ‘male privilege’ not good enough; fight against it
Panelists delve into ‘how male privilege manifests itself to the detriment of others’
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – A panel of scholars, students and community educators recently came together to discuss “how male privilege manifests itself to the detriment of others” – a conversation that aimed to illustrate “how privilege is abused” and “how privilege can be used to act justly,” organizers stated.
“For and With Others: Understanding Male Privilege and Practicing Accountable Allyship” was held Tuesday at Saint Louis University. It featured a six-person panel of professors and others who suggested everyone has some form of privilege, not just men, but that some have it better than others.
Nevertheless, the panelists added, everyone must fight against oppression, racism and sexism through a model of “accountability, advocacy and action.”
“What it means to be an ally is … you aren’t an ally of anything, of anybody, unless you participate in the disruption of the power structures that affect the other person,” said panelist Jonathan Smith, professor of African-American studies at Saint Louis University.
Smith said the term “male privilege” doesn’t go far enough, that that word and similar ones are “such nice, sanitary, polite words that actually move us away from discussions of patriarchy, sexism, racism, white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia, and away from all those words that are the real issue.”
“Privilege is just such a nice, evasive term,” Smith said. “For me, I want to talk about power structures and what power structures mean when we go out into the world.”
Amber Knight, a political science professor at Saint Louis University, said she teaches about male privilege in her introduction to women’s studies class, citing issues such as the “wage gap, underrepresentation of women in Congress, and sexual assault and domestic violence” as proof it exists.
Professors: Acknowledging your ‘male privilege’ not good enough; fight against it (The College Fix)
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Allow me to respond to MS Amber Knight:
1) The Wage Gap is largely a leftist myth – excellent help on this from “Factual Femnist” – but many sources can blow that up.
2) “Under-Representation of Women in Congress” – this is known as the “Front Man Fallacy”.
The “Front Man Fallacy” goes like this: Just because a man is the one in Congress does not mean he primarily takes care of men’s issues. Congress is falling all over itself to make programs and laws that help women, not men.
3) Sexual Assault: According to the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act 10% of all convicts in prison have been subjected to rape (approx) – meaning there are more instances of males BEING raped than women in this country.
And feminists like MS Knight could not care less. If it’s not happening to women, it’s not an issue.
Also – she’d rather eat broken glass than discuss false accusations, and she’d die rather than propose punishments for false accusers.
4)Domesitic Violence – yea, it sure would be nice if those equality laws were applied to DV shelters. The ones MEN PAY FOR, but have no access to.
The DV Industry barely wants to acknowledge, let alone seriously address DV done BY WOMEN TO MEN.
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MS Knight is an ideologue who cares not one whit about issues – but about an ideology, funding, and demonizing men.