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[–] InappropriateEmote@hexbear.net 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not obvious? Because white males as a demographic are the most privileged people on the planet and not coincidentally also the ones most prone to petty, oblivious arrogance, tantrum-throwing, and egotistical man-splaining. The latter was demonstrated by the one in this NASA scientist's anecdote.

[–] Dra@lemmy.zip 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

This robs people of their individual context. The UK Prime Ministers wife is Indian and astonishingly privileged. You are suggesting a poor mine worker from Romania is somehow more privileged based on how he looks.

Lumping people into loose categories (particularly based on skin colour) and then prescribing loose values to them is fascist and racist.

[–] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 47 points 7 months ago (16 children)

You are suggesting a poor mine worker from Romania is somehow more privileged based on how he looks.

You misunderstand the concept of privilege. It’s not linear. Intersectionality was devised to solve this exact contradiction.

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

youre deliberately misinterpreting the concept of intersectionality, it includes class.

[–] Dra@lemmy.zip -2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I'm not deliberately mistinterpreting anything, if I don't understand something, then explain it to me.

Incredibly privileged of you to assume everyone else has your spoilt middle class educational background

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 7 months ago (13 children)

You're posting to a niche reddit-clone that you only could've reliably found out about through either reddit, twitter, or mastodon. You have access to Google, you disingenuous twit.

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[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Incredibly privileged of you to assume everyone else has your spoilt middle class educational background

berdly-actually uhm, actually, it is in fact YOU who is the privileged one in this scenario, no I. check, and furthermore, mate

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

if I don't understand something, then explain it to me.

ok so you have deliberately removed as many brain cells as possible from your brain, understood 07

[–] Dra@lemmy.zip -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you really think that you know all there is to know? Perhaps I know something that you don't, but you don't know what it is. What then?

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 36 points 7 months ago (13 children)

This robs people of their individual context.

Is the context not that in STEM women often face sexism?

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I honestly have to pretend that sexism in STEM is nowhere near as bad as I know it is for the sake of my own mental health. I've heard incredible stories of blatant sexism from colleagues and friends that I just can't fathom

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I've had to defend a close friend from repeated advances and touching, she was an engineer, he was 40 years older than her. It's a problem. I've had good friends get taken advantage of by a PI. Gross. It's the power dynamic in academia too where one person controls the career outcome of the PhD student. It's really nuts out there. It's getting better but that takes time and awareness. I've seen what the bad eggs do and they disgust me. It's not just men, but there are a lot of cases of it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00795-1

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[–] OftenWrong@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

Not the "I know of this one poc that's in a position of power and so white privilege doesn't exist" argument lol