I also mentioned that complaining about an excess of men in science is like complaining about an excess of Jews in science: silly. (Indeed, Jews have an extremely disproportionate in the sciences, but there’s nothing wrong with that.)

My comment disappeared shortly thereafter.

It would seem that some science is more acceptable than other science…

I also mentioned that complaining about an excess of men in science is like complaining about an excess of Jews in science: silly. (Jews indeed have an extremely disproportionate in the sciences, but there’s nothing wrong with that.)

My comment disappeared promptly thereafter.

It would seem that some evidence is more acceptable than other evidence.

First:

Privilege is something every human on Earth has (other than an about to be aborted fetus that was a product of rape or incest.)

Privilege is neither good nor bad. Having ‘more’ privilege is not a value judgment, in itself, of the person with ‘more’ privilege.

Privilege is misunderstood greatly by nearly EVERYBODY who uses it, not the least of which are those who proudly extol their superior understanding of it.

Privilege is contextual, in that it VARIES, not just in definition – e.g. “male privilege” is as difficult to pin down as jello – but also in circumstance, i.e., it is different for a young, effeminate, attractive, gay male at a gay bar, than it is for a beer-drinkin’ pot-bellied straight redneck bubba at the same gay bar.

I have yet to meet the human, every single commentator and blogger and myself included, that wasn’t guilty of egregious and repetitive privilege abuse.

Second:

It’s time – it’s more than time – to end racial characterizations. PERIOD.

Greg, you know better.

We HAVE to stop labelling ‘white’ or ‘black’ or whatever. It’s unscientific and inaccurate, but worst of all, it promulgates a woo-woo pseudoscientific biological view of humanity that continues to haunt and hurt the human animal.

Stop it.

In the context of the More Than Men project, it is an inappropriate label foisted onto people specifically to belittle them as to having undeserved status.

If you want to call yourself ‘white’ – go ahead. I will THEN mark you as having undeserved status, and buying into a heritage of racism, classism and sexism.

I am not white. Because I claim for myself the freedom to self-identify, e.g. gay/straight, man/woman, democrat/republican, you cannot and should not be allowed to label me as anything other than what I claim or my ACTIONS belie. To do otherwise would be an example of an inappropriate exercise of privilege.

Anyway, I very much like to underlying goal of the More Than Men project.

And if you want to be “white”, then…