Assertions that the backlash doesn't exist also fail to take into account the filter bubble effect. I am very careful about who I friend and follow on social media, and I am very aware that this means there are views I rarely see. So even though I don't think I have male privilege, the pattern being described - where a lot of people are visible complaining about the backlash, but the backlash isn't visible - happens regularly, almost every time a media controversy happens. And every time, instead of somehow concluding that the backlash doesn't exist, it simply makes me very aware that even though my feed isn't full of people saying awful things, many of my friends' feeds still are.
I mean, isn't that basic perspective taking? Or... object permanence? That other people, due to their positioning, are able to see things in the vicinity that you don't? Not that I'd know about any of that, I suppose.
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Date: 2017-08-01 09:37 pm (UTC)I mean, isn't that basic perspective taking? Or... object permanence? That other people, due to their positioning, are able to see things in the vicinity that you don't? Not that I'd know about any of that, I suppose.