Yes. They are. Do you have a response to that or are you just trying to appeal to a general sense of outrage?C14N said:I'm not giving Buzzfeed an extra page view but are they seriously calling you less privileged for being an atheist?
It's idiotic when you consider that atheism is, most likely, directly correlated with education and socio-economic status, at least in the US, which are things that make you more privileged on the very same test.C14N said:I'm not giving Buzzfeed an extra page view but are they seriously calling you less privileged for being an atheist?
What about regular assault? Because men are more likely to be assaulted than women on the streets, yet men don't fear it as much as women, what does that fall under?M_K_D said:Privilege is far more complicated than "could it hypothetically happen to you?" If you're a straight male, you're at a far lesser risk of being raped than a female or a queer male. Have you ever felt that casual male friends would be willing to sexually violate you? What about random males on the street? Odds are you haven't, or at least you haven't felt that sense of threat in the same way or at the same rate as a female. That is privilege, being able to go through your day without justifiable fear of sexual assault is privilege.elvor0 said:Firstly, rape, suicide, depression, bullying and being over or under weight have nothing to do with privilege. They can happen to anyone, anywhere at any time. Bill Gates could be raped tomorrow. Oxford and Cambridge are infamous for their hazing and "pranks".
If it was unrelated to gender, then there would as many assaults on women as on men, no? There must be something more satisfying to assault a man than a women for these people.M_K_D said:That's an interesting question, but I'm not quite sure that it matters. A cishet man being randomly assaulted on the street for reasons unrelated to his gender has nothing to do with privilege so far as I can tell.