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In reply to the discussion: Yes, I am a Feminist. Deal. With. It. [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)Maybe it is just a generational thing.
Perhaps the younger generation will be indoctrinated with these ideas. However, I was not.
I was born in 1962, graduated from a class of 250 in 1980, went to the University of Minnesota until 1985, then worked a year, lived in the woods for a year and went to graduate school at Nebraska. Studied math and economics and physics.
Did a lot of reading, but mostly in science fiction and perhaps history. For example, in my 5th year of college, my roommate took a one year course in European history. I didn't but I read the 800 page book they used for the class. I also read his entire anthropology textbook.
Okay, so there is the miseducation of Lauryn Hfojvt. Never heard of this concept of "privilege" until DU. So hearing about something new which does NOT fit what I have previously been taught or observed. My initial reaction is NOT to embrace it. Intially I find it both to be insulting and wrong. So I dispute it when I see it.
Well, it's like most people, and I wish I had a source (or maybe not, if it is somebody odious) who said
"Given a choice between
a) changing their mind
and
b) proving that there is no need to do so,
most people will get busy on the proof."