Privilege

The whole concept of someone having "Privilege" is one that always bothers me. I didn't even know that this was a thing until I kept seeing posts about it on tumblr. Things about how "Male Privilege is being able to walk alone at night" and "Thin Privilege is having eating a lot be cute rather than unhealthy". This is so wrong on so many levels it astounds me.

Saying someone has a certain kind of privilege is so prejudiced that is isn't even funny. You are judging someone simply on how they appear to be. How is that fair? Well, it isn't. The people who scream about privilege are making something out of nothing. It isn't male privilege to want sex from his significant other and to get pouty about it when he is denied. That's just guys. They always want sex so they aren't going to turn down a girl when she wants some! Thinking of that as male privilege just shows that you don't understand guys at all. They aren't trying to oppress women! At least not like that anyway. This tumblr pretty much shows everything that is wrong with our society.

There is a post on what is right now the second page of the blog reading:

While visiting a potential graduate school for physics, I asked a faculty member why all 20 professors in the department were male and none were female (as a female, I was simply inquiring why there was virtually no female presence).  His response?  ”We only hire talented people”. 

You are getting offended by that? The fact of the matter is: There are MUCH less women in science and technical fields. Men do tend to be better at it and they tend to go and get the advanced degrees. I'm not saying that women can't be, I know many intelligent and driven women, but men tend to be the ones who pursue advanced degrees in fields like physics. If this school has100 people apply for a position, most likely only one or two will be women. So it seems even more likely that the best person for the job will be a man. Is that sexist? No. It's not. It would be sexist for the school to hire a woman simply because she is a woman.

If you are truly the best, and confident in the fact that you are damn good at something, you shouldn't need special set asides to guarantee you a job or a place at a university. That means you can't earn it simply based on your abilities. That is the most demeaning thing I can imagine! These special women only set asides mean that THEY DON'T THINK YOU CAN DO IT WITH OUT HELP. This isn't equality of the sexes people wake up!