Society lets you go from an asshole to "truther" with one word

[Normchacho]

DonFerrari said:

Normchacho said:

Of course. Everyone has their problem, and yes, everyone has their crosses to bare. But am I really supposed to believe that being called a racist or a sexist (both of which I have been called) is the same as being less likely to get a job, or being vastly more likely to get raped?

Don't get me wrong, as I said in an earlier post, I don't feel guilty about other peoples hardships. But that doesn't mean it's okay to belittle them.

I do agree with you that there is some male, white with good education privilege... but I won't ever feel guilty for something I was born with and didn't had option (although I'm certain I would have choose to be born as I was, perhaps richier), still I think equality is really treating everyone the same.

Just on the rape thing... there are newer studies and researches that show that man being rapped could be the same average or even higher than woman, but the men is even more ashamed to report because it would show they were weak to be rapped by a woman or the notion that a man should be grateful for every sex he get. Of course I won't take that as gospel. But since another research showed that perhaps 90% of the rape reports were lies. I wouldn't be so sure about the rape risk... and in my country you are 9-11x more prone to be killed as a heterossexual man than being gay or woman then I would say we are at a disavantage here more than them.

And that is absolutely a conversation worth having. I'm actually a staunch believer that there are several issues that the public doesn't view in the correct light.

For instance, studies show that 40% of domestic violence victims are men and yet whenever you see anything about domestic violence it always focuses on women.

 

There are absolutely important misconceptions that are worth talking about. None of them are in the OP.