I also think it’s worthwhile to note that it’s perfectly fine to use personal experience to elucidate something that can be very abstract, such as privilege. It becomes problematic, however, when we cross the line from using an individual experience to ground the abstract in the real to assuming a system of privilege is about us personally. It isn’t. Woman A or Man B behaved X way in situation Y. Let’s take that individual situation and deconstruct how a particular system of privilege may or may not have affected their behavioral choices without initially attacking either side. This approach becomes increasingly difficult the more egregious we perceive the individual situation, but the resulting dialogue can be truly transformative.
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You said it much more accurately than me. Thank you.
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Well, thanks – it did seem less incendiary than my first draft reply: All men suck!
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Its not straw feminism, its outright fiction. Complaints of a problem of insignificant proportions in comparison to the converse. Attacks on the rights and lives of women done which are enshrined as policy. The anti-abortion platform is a perfect example of a deeply ingrained and pervasive attack in our society. It literally seeks to deny women their own autonomy in a way no feminist policy could do for men.
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Nah, it’s okay, men are all just… Adjusts necktie… Misandry-stood.
(I am gonna be punched for one of my terrible puns one day)
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It hasn’t happened yet? 
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That may be the most surprising thing we have learned today 
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You’re too affably charming to punch, despite the abysmal puns.
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So… Wet Willy? 
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Is that a request?
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I may not look quick, but get a ■■■■■ finger near my ear and I transform into The Flash if he was also Neo in the matrix.
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I can promise you that you need never worry about my fingers being anywhere near any of your orifices, “moistness” notwithstanding.
*lolz
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[rips up erotic fanfic manuscript in frustration]
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snort
That’s why we get along 
(But really, if I ever go too far, you have my explicit permission to slap me)
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Noted, and “permission” reserved.
*lolz
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The Tribune building.
You have a view from the new office, I take it?
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Maybe you two should get a room 
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Now we know the real reason for the Lounge!
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