Adrian Wrote:I should also point that the better deals isn't my main complaint here. My main complaint is with companies that decide to only offer insurance to women, and not to men. Offering better prices to women might be a good business strategy for an insurance company, and might not be sexist (just female privilege), but not offering insurance at all? That is clear sexism.
"Female Privilege" is sexism. Just as "Black Privilege" is racism. Just as "Elderly Privilege" is ageism. La de-whooping da.
People do things for reasons, even if they don't know them. Perhaps said insurance company to which you refer is a feministic insurance company. Perhaps it is scared of male drivers because of the media. Perhaps it has discovered a secret to making fantastic money with insurance that rival companies don't yet understand. I think it is amusing that a company would bar men from buying from them... alienating perhaps 50% of their potential customers. Either they are fools, or geniuses beyond my time
You also seem to view sexism as a bad thing... if this is so: why?
Quote:Also, who said anything about "policies based on prejudice"? Is that how we are assessing things now? If the reasoning behind an action isn't based on prejudice, it's fine, even if it affects a certain sex more than another? If that is the case, you can't defend any of the things on the list of "male privileges" (or "female privileges"), since one could easily claim they aren't being prejudiced.
Prejudice is often completely safe. I am prejudiced that all trees will follow the same patterns as they have all my life. But I have to look out if they start moving around or something. That would be bad.
People are not trees (though some trees may be people... > _ >). Many 'female privileges' disappear if a woman is ugly, and especially 'deformed'. Many 'male privileges' disappear when a man is effeminate.
Therefore: transexuals have next to neither of these sets of privileges until they are nearly done with their transformation(s)
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
