Please also consider that women can benefit, even greatly benefit, from male privilege.
It doesn't necessarily have to be bad. Eg. if one partner works in a field and one in the home, doing about equal amounts of work, the asymmetry may be the least of their problems.
But I can't bring myself to believe in the example you gave. One woman benefited, one woman was damaged. Presumably to about the same amount. So in some way it evens out. But if that's the norm, some women are quite literally screwed, because they are forced to marry a man to get that advantage.
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Date: 2008-05-02 08:51 pm (UTC)It doesn't necessarily have to be bad. Eg. if one partner works in a field and one in the home, doing about equal amounts of work, the asymmetry may be the least of their problems.
But I can't bring myself to believe in the example you gave. One woman benefited, one woman was damaged. Presumably to about the same amount. So in some way it evens out. But if that's the norm, some women are quite literally screwed, because they are forced to marry a man to get that advantage.