"Reverse sexism"? Check your privilege.
"Privilege?" Check your cultural Marxism.
When the term 'male privilege' is dragged into the discussion, people are likely start thinking about their own experiences. They'll remember girls getting extra attention in labs, girls getting deadline extensions, they'll remember working at a pizza shop Saturday night to help pay rent/tuition while the girl on a girl-only scholarship is enjoying a date paid for by her wealthy boyfriend. The details will be different for each individual but the important point is that the answer to the question "what is privilege?" is not simple. It doesn't offer a clear answer to the charge.
> Is there nary a safe space on the internet for men to talk about their experience in the tech sector?
Why not simply state this point directly (minus the sarcasm if possible) instead of making accusations of privilege to people you don't know anything about?
If the counterargument is good enough I will file it away in my head to use next time the topic comes up. Or I might think of other questions, like what happens if a womens-only tech group becomes more successful than any other tech group in a particular domain/region and men want to participate?
Though personally, I probably would have just downvoted and been done with it.
If you are suggesting that privilege of experience doesn't exist or is somehow Marxist, you are basically saying that any experience other than your own isn't real and doesn't count. That is to say, you are calling everyone who has ever lived differently from you a liar.
The point is, we are all minorities, depending on which way you cut the population. It doesn't really matter, unless you let it matter. especially in this industry.
What about "whites in tech"? Would that be racist? What about "blacks in tech?"
Or are you of the opinion it's impossible to be racist to white people, sexist to men, etc?
Yeah, that's the kind of pathetic platitude that condescends in order to pretend nothing's wrong. Having trouble because you're black, female, wheelchair-bound, recovering from alcoholism, etc.? Pft. It wouldn't matter if only you'd stop letting it matter.
Is that an attempt to discredit someone just by tossing out a scary-sounding label? What if we haven't been programmed to fear Marxism, and "cultural marxism" just makes you sound like an ignant fool?
In other, politer words, what exactly are you trying to say here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism
Perhaps you are simply ignorant of the origin of your "privilege" rhetoric.
What exactly are you trying to say?