We’ve already explored how the male sex is simultaneously highlighted and erased in the areas of celebration (erased) and perpetration (highlighted).
But Gamma Bias also explores two more quadrants where we see the same phenomenon.
The male sex is often erased in the areas of victimhood, their suffering ignored or made invisible. Whereas women and girls are forefronted in headlines, online discussion, advocacy and political strategies in times of crisis or violence.
However when it comes to ‘privilege’ we see the opposite - the male sex is now highlighted, with blanket assertions of ‘male privilege’, whilst the advantages enjoyed by women and girls are erased instead.
So male privilege (like female victimhood) is forefronted, despite them making up the majority of homelessness, drug related deaths, suicides, military deaths, workplaces deaths, police killings, assault victims, murder victims, the incarcerated, alcohol abusers, children deprived of liberty,
as well as being behind in every area of education in almost every western nation, and living shorter lives in every country on planet earth.
#maleprivilege - Its a strange gendered label to give isn’t it?
But not when you understand the cognitive distortion that we all fall into – Gamma Bias.
Read more #ttmgammabias
Sources: 👇
Shorter lives: tinyurl.com/y83qewlv
81% Murder victims: tinyurl.com/dcp3nams
70% of unsheltered homeless: tinyurl.com/vrvn4rcr
69% of overdoses: tinyurl.com/y3odkkg8
78% of suicides: tinyurl.com/y8v4xjh4
92% of workplace deaths: tinyurl.com/yb3usqt8
88% of homeless deaths tinyurl.com/bd34hrsz
96% of police killings: tinyurl.com/y7hhtyg9
93% of the incarcerated: tinyurl.com/2p8h87j2
75% of stranger violence victims: tinyurl.com/2bx5rayx
63% longer prison sentences tinyurl.com/et94pwum
17.5% of child custody winners tinyurl.com/y2nrzclh
94% of detained children tinyurl.com/dxkstam8
98% of military deaths tinyurl.com/274ybdmr
Fathers rights https://tinyurl.com/y83kwy2n
Later pensions /tinyurl.com/sh9stsa9
Men excluded from sexual violence laws tinyurl.com/mst2vdsn
Boys behind in education tinyurl.com/2p8hhzcc
Lesbian women more accepted than gay men tinyurl.com/yvstu3e2