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[Major Nikon]

44. Calling something you don't agree with "right wing" is intellectual laziness

The obvious problem with your examples, and your warped comparison is that racial discrimination can and does most certainly exist for generations and current laws and societal structures still favor a dominate white society. If you are a female born to a privileged father, you are just as likely to inherit that birthright as a male son. You can't say the same thing about minorities which are quite often never born into privilege. Women also don't have to live with an education system which heavily favors men, unlike minorities. Women and men have always been privileged in different ways. You can't say the same thing about minorities. So bringing up something that most certainly does exist, like white privilege and trying to use that as leverage to give credibility to a "male privilege" argument I also find to be quite intellectually lazy.

Certainly the patriarchal system which existed 100 years ago allowed men more freedom than women, but the parts of that system which favored men have largely if not completely been abolished yet the vestiges of that system that remain mostly benefit women. So the things you mention have no detrimental effect on women today, and furthermore the "patriarchy" as it's defined by rad fems, bears no resemblance to the "patriarchy" as it existed 100 years ago. That's why I was careful to say "patriarchal conspiracy theories" as rad fems define it which leads to all sorts of nonsense like all (or most) PIV sex is rape, "male gaze", objectification, and a number of other nutty concepts. If you think those things are real, more power to you. I don't.