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In reply to the discussion: Found on Radfem website [View all]Major Nikon
(36,917 posts)As I've said many times, both genders are privileged in different ways. There are all sorts of different categories of violence, many of which are quite distinct. Is a man who gets shot in the street any less of a victim than a woman who gets severely beaten by a significant other?
To answer your question, some of it has unquestionably disappeared. Women graduate high school more often. Women graduate college more often. Women outnumber men in college enrollment. Women receive more educational funding. The opportunities once denied to them now aren't, and many of which are protected by law. Laws which disadvantaged women are gone. Furthermore many of the privileges that women have always had are largely unchanged. Women live longer. Women receive more health care funding. Women suffer occupational injury and death at far lower rates. There are less homeless women. Women are still disparately represented in prison and receive less punishment by the justice system for identical offenses. Women still do not have to register for selective service.
So while some of the effects you mentioned have unquestionably disappeared, for men this is not the case. So the question becomes at what point do we acknowledge that the scale has gone the other way, if ever? If we can't quantify those things the answer is never. At best we have reached a point of parity as far as privilege goes and the idea that men's issues are real and quantifiable has no merit.
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