How does a movement begin? It begins when a large group of people are angry and demonstrate their anger. Truth to power! Anyone who denies white privilege, especially white male privilege, is not living in the real world. It is easy to blame ones own faults on perceived discrimination, but let's look at the facts:
1. Women are abused and raped at a much greater rate than men, with the perpetrator almost always a man.
2. Men are in charge of almost all significant corporations, countries, government agencies.
3. Women are paid less than men.
4. Women perform most of the least desirable jobs, at much less pay, and especially women of color perform these jobs - cleaning, waiting tables, assisting others.
5. Women are taught to be "nice" and look "pretty" (which means thin with makeup). Men aren't.
6. What do you call a woman that has a lot of sex? The names are quite different than what men are called, "stud, Lothario, Don Juan, the man."
I could go on and I won't. Yesterday, women and men stood up against sexism. All of you white men who feel that you have been discriminated against, as a class, race or gender, you are not. That doesn't mean that you didn't get the job/promotion or whatever. This is bigger than you.
I hope the worldwide Women's Marches mean we have a movement. While I love men, and some of my best friends are men, and discrimination doesn't apply to most men, the facts are still the facts. Women comprise 52% of the population and have less than 10% of the power. That needs to change. Viva la femme!
Lynn, according to the ABA more men are raped every year than women, if you count prison rapes.
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