Reply #96: Two things: 1) Because of the way they are framed. [View All]

[lumberjack_jeff]

If I were to say, "the justice system is unfair, more women should be executed."

Or, "The workplace is too unsafe for men. The money spent on scholarships for women should be redirected to making logging and fishing safe."

You'd have a better example of the way "examples of privilege" are framed here and why they attract hostility.

2) the threads to which you appear to be referring were a thread indicating that OWS is part of the gender war because women don't own anything, and the other was a thread taking all men to task for the crime of rape.

What you see as a hostile privilege dump was to me the most basic kind of fact-checking and a request for fundamental fairness.