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lumberjack_jeff

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7. If the idea of intersectionality were useful, you could use it in reverse.

Reply to kjones (Reply #6)

Wed May 6, 2015, 02:09 PM

May 2015

Take a group of people who share the same (unknown) characteristics, measure their health, their joblessness, their crime victimization, their education, their mental and emotional health, and be able to predict with some certainty what racial/gender/age/disability characteristics they have.

You could actually do this of course, but it would require abandoning everything we think we know about gender privilege.

The reverse engineering of privilege would be an excellent masters thesis.

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What we talk about when we talk about Boko Haram. [View all] Bonobo May 2015 OP

This has been going on all over the continent forever basically Major Nikon May 2015 #1

Sometimes I wonder kjones May 2015 #2

Talk about millions of men dead in wars... you get "Men did it to themselves". Bonobo May 2015 #3

Men are the oppressors so they can't possibly be oppressed Major Nikon May 2015 #5

I've had interesting discussions kjones May 2015 #6

If the idea of intersectionality were useful, you could use it in reverse. lumberjack_jeff May 2015 #7

Yeah, I don't know kjones May 2015 #8

The bias is part of western society too. lumberjack_jeff May 2015 #4

Go ahead and do a Google News search on "Boko Haram". Bonobo May 2015 #9