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Feb. 12th, 2019 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feotakahariInspired by this.
Every once in a while, someone looks at a society where men are allowed to do things, but women are only allowed to ask men to do things, and says women are incredibly privileged in that society because they never have to do things and can ask men to do them instead. Naturally, this is willfully ignorant of what happens when men refuse to do the things women aren’t allowed to do, and it’s getting the privilege exactly backwards.
This informs how I think about the idea that children have some manner of “privilege” compared to adults. You eat because the adults choose to feed you, and if they chose not to, you would starve. My strongest memories of childhood are of trying to figure out how to convince authority figures they’d screwed up, without ever making them think I felt any sense of superiority over them for their mistake, because I knew that only bad things could come of adults deciding I was “arrogant.”
Every once in a while, someone looks at a society where men are allowed to do things, but women are only allowed to ask men to do things, and says women are incredibly privileged in that society because they never have to do things and can ask men to do them instead. Naturally, this is willfully ignorant of what happens when men refuse to do the things women aren’t allowed to do, and it’s getting the privilege exactly backwards.
This informs how I think about the idea that children have some manner of “privilege” compared to adults. You eat because the adults choose to feed you, and if they chose not to, you would starve. My strongest memories of childhood are of trying to figure out how to convince authority figures they’d screwed up, without ever making them think I felt any sense of superiority over them for their mistake, because I knew that only bad things could come of adults deciding I was “arrogant.”
