• Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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    24 days ago

    Men

    • higher loneliness
    • seen as dangerous by default
    • higher mental illness
    • worse academic performance
    • higher suicide rates
    • higher rates of homelessness
    • less likely to get child custody in a divorce
    • less support infrastructure
    • are more likely to be dismissed when asking for help
    • work more dangerous jobs
    • higher workplace accident rate
    • higher probability to be victim of a violent crime
    • more likely to suffer from addiction (gambling, porn, substances)
    • lower life expectancy
    • higher incarceration rate
    • more likely to be poor
    • Asafum@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      Yes, but I think the point was the white part of “white men.”

      I was “lucky” enough to have my privilege put in plain english during a job interview. I’m white and this guy literally says “it so hard to find a clean cut white guy for this job, I don’t want some Dominican walking into a customers store with our logo on.” If I was not white I would not have gotten that job.

      But yes, as you say, I’m stuck working in a factory right now with shitty air quality, I’ve been single for almost a decade, have severe anxiety and depression, and am fairly poor. Still doesn’t mean I don’t have privilege for simply being white. :/

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        Big fucking yikes, they just said that out loud?

        I’m in kinda the same boat, early 30s white guy, shitty job (truck driver), single, and so depressed and anxious that I’m currently on short term disability because of it.

        I feel like the big problem with the discourse around white privilege is that most people misunderstand what it actually means. It doesn’t mean that everything is handed to you purely because of skin colour, and it doesn’t mean that things can’t be difficult. It just means that we get an unspoken, and often unconscious advantage over our racialized peers in our white-dominated society.

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        This is a good point to bring up. My friend who is far less educated and her husband have awful jobs compared to me, but because they have generational wealth they are much better off in life. They have homes, land, etc all because they were passed down. At the same time, they would rail against being called privileged, but they could sell that home for half a million dollars and never go into the debts or put in the work others have to just to have a roof over their heads.

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      24 days ago

      Yes and you know what all us leftists say, “if you have any adversity it means you never had any privilege at all in the first place” very valid. Thank you for your contribution.

    • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      What is the source of these issues?

      Maybe men should stop being so shitty to men, but more so they should definitely stop being so hostile and abusive to women.