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11 Jul 2019, 10:41 am

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The expanded privilege has expanded into intersectionality where your opinions are judged based on a ranking scale of privileges and oppressions based on the groups you were born into. If you were born into enough groups deemed oppressed you need safe spaces to protect you from being triggered by those born into enough groups deemed privileged. There is not always agreement as to how this scale should be defined and measured leading to what is known as "oppression olympics".
Or, in cruder terms, an "Oppression Pissing Contest"...

ME: "I'm an Aspie."

HE: "Oh yeah? Well, I'm an immigrant Aspie!"

SHE: "I got you both beat! I'm a female immigrant Aspie!"

:roll: Et cetera, ad nauseum...

THEY: I am a aspie, physically differently abled, pansexual, person of color.


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11 Jul 2019, 10:53 am

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A short, attractive man (and, to some extent, a tall, attractive woman) are somewhat scorned by some. This is magnified if the person, objectively, is not seen as being "attractive."

Short, attractive women are somewhat favored by men in general---but they are not as "respected" as a woman of average height.


They're not respected by anyone. It's just that some men prefer them that way.

The reasons are kind of icky and don't take away from the infantilising.


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11 Jul 2019, 11:12 am

KT67 wrote:
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A short, attractive man (and, to some extent, a tall, attractive woman) are somewhat scorned by some. This is magnified if the person, objectively, is not seen as being "attractive." Short, attractive women are somewhat favored by men in general---but they are not as "respected" as a woman of average height.
... some men prefer them that way.
What kind of ignorant misogyny is this? The average woman is shorter than the average man, so it is obvious that most men would be attracted to women who are shorter, only because most women are shorter than most men!
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The reasons are kind of icky and don't take away from the infantilising.
There is nothing "icky" or "infantile" about most women being shorter than most men, it just happens. If men were attracted only to women who were the same height, there would be a lot more tall single men and a lot more short single women than there are now. Stop trying to make a fetish or perversion out of it.

Oops! There goes my cognitive privilege again! I had better check it... :roll:



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11 Jul 2019, 11:17 am

I am one who happens to respect short people as much as tall people—man or woman.

I’m short myself.

I would never infantilize a short woman. I don’t think in those terms.



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11 Jul 2019, 11:20 am

Is this some sort of attempt to conflate liking short women with pedophilia? And if that's the case; what the hell?


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11 Jul 2019, 11:22 am

Wolfram87 wrote:
Is this some sort of attempt to conflate liking short women with pedophilia? And if that's the case; what the hell?
Agreed. Let's get back on topic.



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11 Jul 2019, 11:23 am

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kraftiekortie wrote:
A short, attractive man (and, to some extent, a tall, attractive woman) are somewhat scorned by some. This is magnified if the person, objectively, is not seen as being "attractive." Short, attractive women are somewhat favored by men in general---but they are not as "respected" as a woman of average height.
... some men prefer them that way.
What kind of ignorant misogyny is this? The average woman is shorter than the average man, so it is obvious that most men would be attracted to women who are shorter, only because most women are shorter than most men!
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The reasons are kind of icky and don't take away from the infantilising.
There is nothing "icky" or "infantile" about most women being shorter than most men, it just happens. If men were attracted only to women who were the same height, there would be a lot more tall single men and a lot more short single women than there are now. Stop trying to make a fetish or perversion out of it.

Oops! There goes my cognitive privilege again! I had better check it... :roll:


OK...

No what I mean is they say 'you're so sexy because you're short, you're like a child but I can have you'.

If they wanted 5"2 (normal in a woman, not normal in a man) and put up with me, that would be one thing. If they liked 4"11 just because it was a preference and they didn't link it in their minds to submission or being cute, good. But I attract guys who aren't brave enough to break the law... I look underage and some guys like that. I know that because they tell me. I find it gross and patronising.

Not all guys just the guys who like me. Not even all the guys who like me, just specific ones.

Yes it is icky. And no I don't say 'icky' in public, that would only encourage them. I avoid looking cutesy in public.


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11 Jul 2019, 11:25 am

Wolfram87 wrote:
Is this some sort of attempt to conflate liking short women with pedophilia? And if that's the case; what the hell?


Yeah, if you like someone who looks underage because she looks underage, that's creepy.

It's been happening to me since I was 13...


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11 Jul 2019, 11:33 am

Seems like you have a personal problem there, KT67 -- one that's more appropriate for The Haven.



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11 Jul 2019, 11:43 am

White privilege.


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11 Jul 2019, 11:44 am

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White privilege.
Covered under "Racial Privilege".



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11 Jul 2019, 11:45 am

Cis privilege.


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11 Jul 2019, 11:49 am

Hippie privilege


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11 Jul 2019, 11:50 am

I believe the word privilege is also used to be dismissive of peoples struggles. Like just because you are able bodied, white, cis, male, straight, you better check your privilege because someone out there has it worse.

So I make fun of the word too and it's hilarious when some people get upset when I tell them they are privileged like they have fat privilege because at least it won't hurt when they lay on their backs and they won't need to dress in as many layers in the winter. The irony of it is they don't see their own hypocrisy when they go on about thin privilege. But but but, having fat privilege does not mean you are struggling and not suffering, it just means you benefit from it. That is what they say about thin privilege, even if you are struggling with an eating disorder or have cancer so you can't eat so you are very skinny as a result.


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12 Jul 2019, 9:58 am

Cuckoo privilege

Over the other birds.


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12 Jul 2019, 10:18 am

Indoors privilege.

When you don't have an umbrella and it's raining.


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