Male Privilege, helpfully explained by a white dude

[shaayecanaan]

208. It is "ugh" precisely because it is true, I suspect...

and because the emergence of identity politics in the post-war period (of which feminism plays a relatively small part, I admit) was largely responsible for the demise of working-class coalition politics, which for all its faults was the only period in which there was a substantial improvement in the living conditions of working people in America.

Despite all the claims of "sisterhood", there is no evidence that ruling-class or middle-class women care any more for the fortunes of poor women than rich men do for poor men. Many of the concerns of the feminist movement (such as equal representation and remuneration for female directors on the boards of public companies) are not even middle-class concerns so much as they are ruling-class concerns.