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By women privilege I don't mean anything to do with rape or sexual assault. Although laws that say "doing X to a woman is sexual assault" could easily say "doing X to a human is sexual assault" and nobody would complain, but that doesn't score as much political points for leftist politicians.
I mean things like scholarships, entrepreneurship subsidies, gender-bas hiring quotas.
And many other things that used to be "micro-sexism" when it was done against women, now it's done against men.
As an example, here's some anecdotal evidence: my girlfriend studies mechanical manufacturing in a public school, they are about 10 people in class, 2 of them women. Every year they take photos/videos of students working to advertise their school. 2/2 times they "chose" the 2 women to appear in the mechanical manufacturing adds, 0 men.
Later on, each group made a project and submitted it for a government program for entrepreneurs. They only chose 1 group from her class (guess which one, the one with 2 women). When they attended the gathering of the awarded ones, they asked the organizers and they admitted that no group for their class was good enough, they only got in because they were 2 women in a mechanical manufacturing class.
Every time I say cases like this there is one of 2 responses from the left:
I never hear this reaction: 3. Yeah that's fucked up, the men in that class are 2nd class citizens in the presence of women.
You said no group was good enough. Is it possible they had to award somebody and just picked the group that'd look better? Because most of us will instead see the problem in needing a winner at all. If noones qualified, just don't award anyone
I don't know if they had to pick someone. But even if they did, they should choose the better of them, instead of whichever had more women.
A 4.5/10 project is still better than a 3/10, even if neither would pass.