This past Martin Luther King Day, students in the predominantly white Oconomowoc Area School District in suburban Milwaukee attended a school assembly in which white privilege and other social privileges were discussed. And boy, were their parents unhappy about it!
LOL, I wrote an economics paper along these lines back in college. Naively thinking that if the government recognized "women's work" as work, and paid them for it (in lieu of welfare or letting them be dependent on a male breadwinner), their contribution would be more valued, or something like that. And maybe help the economy in the long run. I prolly got a B, I don't remember. I'd remember if was an A.
Back in the sixties, I was driving my friends home with a couple of hot pizzas, and was stopped by a cop who searched my car for pot. [What's that, you say? Of course he had reason, I had long hair.] I opened the trunk for him and it was full of ...my father's firearms. Guess Dad forgot he hadn't emptied the trunk before loaning me his car. The cop moved them around, unsuccessfully looking under them for pot.
I don't have links at hand, but several studies have indicated that men are less sensitive to body language, sarcasm, linguistic nuance, etc. than are women. Whites less than blacks, rich less than working poor. Which makes sense - if you're rich enough to have servants, you don't have to care about subtle tension when gripping the door handle; if you're the male in an elevator with a woman you don't have to be worried about physical attack, and don't nervously watch for such.
Climate change, monkey grandparents, white privilege - meh. They're all uncomfortable ideas, and are not allowed in the safe space playhouse.
Conservative authoritarians are binary thinkers. Their categories of things are simple opposites, with bright, clear, borders.
If they have to work for what they have, they can't be privileged in any way.If black lives matter, white lives don't.If it's desirable for men to be strong, then women should be weak.
I read an article back in the mid 80's about a study that was done to place an economic value on all the work wives and mothers do at home. The conclusion was that a man would have to pay someone $175,000 to do all the work that his wife did at home, including providing semi-weekly sex, and that was 1980's dollars - which is about $405,000 in today's money.
I had to take a year off work to take care of my mother when she had open heart surgery, and I took another year off when my father developed dementia but wasn't quite sick enough for a nursing home ... and I lost 2 years of Social Security because of this. Both times when I went back to work, I got very negative interview questions from male employers about my lapses in employment, such as "Why didn't you just put them in a nursing home?" or "Why didn't you use that time to get another degree?" (as if they had absolutely no clue how much work was involved in taking care of sick people). I didn't get those questions from female interviewers.
I must say here that my mother loved her life. Nothing gave her more pleasure than watching her children enjoy all the advantages that she never had, because she had to leave school at age 13 and work 10 hours a day in a factory for $5 a week, all of which she turned over to her father. She worked her ass off going to night school to earn a high school diploma, and then she took a test to win a scholarship to nursing school, and all she really wanted from life was the white-picket-fence-dream-home with happy children who had all the cultural and educational advantages she could afford to give them. She was a very happy woman most of the time. My father was a bit of a disappointment for her, but most men are.
I tried once to explain to a group of men ranging in age from 20 to 80 what it was like to be an attractive, single young woman in the 70's and 80's, and how I could never go anywhere alone - especially at night - without being constantly aware every single second of what some man might take it into his head to do to me. This was multiplied a hundred-fold when I lived for a year in in Spain in the mid-70's, where the CONSTANT verbal abuse was exhausting. I told them "You never ever have to worry about this" and I could tell from their faces that they had never, ever thought about this before. I also said "I'm lucky, because I'm part of the first generation that had The Pill, so at least I didn't have to worry much about getting pregnant after I was raped." I could tell that they had never thought about that before, either. Most of these men were married and some of them had daughters and some of them had admitted to foolish behavior when they were young soldiers during WWII and Korea and Viet Nam... how could they never have thought about this?
keep in mind, richie moved off to hollywood to be a big shot movie director, potsie and ralph malph stayed there, in the white suburbs of milwaukee, that's who these parents are
LOL, I wrote an economics paper along these lines back in college. Naively thinking that if the government recognized "women's work" as work, and paid them for it (in lieu of welfare or letting them be dependent on a male breadwinner), their contribution would be more valued, or something like that. And maybe help the economy in the long run. I prolly got a B, I don't remember. I'd remember if was an A.
Bwahahahaha!
What a great news site."All-Veteran Paintball Team Can’t Win Without Air Support"
Being former military helps.
Back in the sixties, I was driving my friends home with a couple of hot pizzas, and was stopped by a cop who searched my car for pot. [What's that, you say? Of course he had reason, I had long hair.] I opened the trunk for him and it was full of ...my father's firearms. Guess Dad forgot he hadn't emptied the trunk before loaning me his car. The cop moved them around, unsuccessfully looking under them for pot.
"Carry on, folks," he said. "Enjoy the pizza."
Guess what color I am?
Lack of introspection and an inability to see another's point of view go hand in hand
This old white man assures you that you are making perfectly good sense.
I don't have links at hand, but several studies have indicated that men are less sensitive to body language, sarcasm, linguistic nuance, etc. than are women. Whites less than blacks, rich less than working poor. Which makes sense - if you're rich enough to have servants, you don't have to care about subtle tension when gripping the door handle; if you're the male in an elevator with a woman you don't have to be worried about physical attack, and don't nervously watch for such.
Climate change, monkey grandparents, white privilege - meh. They're all uncomfortable ideas, and are not allowed in the safe space playhouse.
Conservative authoritarians are binary thinkers. Their categories of things are simple opposites, with bright, clear, borders.
If they have to work for what they have, they can't be privileged in any way.If black lives matter, white lives don't.If it's desirable for men to be strong, then women should be weak.
Yup. Those damn lazy immigrants who keep stealing our jobs!
David privilege!
I'll bet there are more women CEOs named Mary than men CEOs named Mary. So they're even, right?
‘That they are the same people who say “political correctness” prevents them from openly being racist assholes’ ftfy
I read an article back in the mid 80's about a study that was done to place an economic value on all the work wives and mothers do at home. The conclusion was that a man would have to pay someone $175,000 to do all the work that his wife did at home, including providing semi-weekly sex, and that was 1980's dollars - which is about $405,000 in today's money.
I had to take a year off work to take care of my mother when she had open heart surgery, and I took another year off when my father developed dementia but wasn't quite sick enough for a nursing home ... and I lost 2 years of Social Security because of this. Both times when I went back to work, I got very negative interview questions from male employers about my lapses in employment, such as "Why didn't you just put them in a nursing home?" or "Why didn't you use that time to get another degree?" (as if they had absolutely no clue how much work was involved in taking care of sick people). I didn't get those questions from female interviewers.
I must say here that my mother loved her life. Nothing gave her more pleasure than watching her children enjoy all the advantages that she never had, because she had to leave school at age 13 and work 10 hours a day in a factory for $5 a week, all of which she turned over to her father. She worked her ass off going to night school to earn a high school diploma, and then she took a test to win a scholarship to nursing school, and all she really wanted from life was the white-picket-fence-dream-home with happy children who had all the cultural and educational advantages she could afford to give them. She was a very happy woman most of the time. My father was a bit of a disappointment for her, but most men are.
I tried once to explain to a group of men ranging in age from 20 to 80 what it was like to be an attractive, single young woman in the 70's and 80's, and how I could never go anywhere alone - especially at night - without being constantly aware every single second of what some man might take it into his head to do to me. This was multiplied a hundred-fold when I lived for a year in in Spain in the mid-70's, where the CONSTANT verbal abuse was exhausting. I told them "You never ever have to worry about this" and I could tell from their faces that they had never, ever thought about this before. I also said "I'm lucky, because I'm part of the first generation that had The Pill, so at least I didn't have to worry much about getting pregnant after I was raped." I could tell that they had never thought about that before, either. Most of these men were married and some of them had daughters and some of them had admitted to foolish behavior when they were young soldiers during WWII and Korea and Viet Nam... how could they never have thought about this?
They're just emulating the president.
I assume a few kids went home and told said parents. These parents are undoubtedly loud and obnoxious, which is why they got their way.
keep in mind, richie moved off to hollywood to be a big shot movie director, potsie and ralph malph stayed there, in the white suburbs of milwaukee, that's who these parents are
You're making me feel like a dirty old lady now! LOL!