Where? And how so? Care to expand? It seems you haven't at this point yet.
I guess I'll jump in between you two here. Let's look at a couple of ways in which whites are priveliged over other ethnic groups. Then we'll look at how women are priveliged over men. The point here is to illustrate that inequality exists, and furthermore, that imagining there is a single group with all of the privilege is incredibly simplistic.
Note that this is a bit far from the original question, but the argument here did stem from that question, so I'm going to run with it after I finish this run-on sentence, ok? Cool.
White American privilege over Black Americans
I was listening to NPR News on 89.3 KCUR last week. It was an interview with a black man and a white man who shared a last name, which I can't remember right now (the black dude has a brother in the NFL). Let's refer to these two as W and B.
The reason that the two have the same last name? W's ancestral grandfather owned B's ancestral grandfather, as if B's ancestor were a chair or a painting. The details of the interview are fascinating and moving, but what really got me was the final statement by W. He said (more or less) that even though he had worked hard for what he had in life, he could not avoid the fact that he had a "running start" compared to B.
This is because, seven or eight generations ago, B's family started from scratch, with no assets, no connections, no inheritance. But W's family had all of those things. Which means that when the members of each successive generation fell on hard times - injury, illness, mandatory legal expenses like taxes and vehicle registration - W's family had a significant advantage over B's family... an advantage of stored resources which had been handed down.
This is "privilege" because the later generations of W's family did nothing to earn these resources; they were simply born into the right family.
White American Privilege over Hispanic Americans
There are numerous examples of this, I'll present a simple one. It's becoming a regular practice in some cities to stop Hispanic Americans outside of courthouses.
http://vdlf.org/the-interrogation-was-illegal-ice-raids/
Essentially, when latinos go to court to pay tickets or whatever else, they are stopped and coerced into revealing their immigration status. The officers are stopping people with no criminal record, who are doing nothing visibly wrong, and who are in fact upholding their civic duty by taking responsibility for their actions.
Now, officers coerce people into incriminating themselves all the time. It's my understanding that they receive training to be effective in this coercion. But the difference here, and the part that makes whites privileged over latinos, is that latinos are being routinely questioned and detained simply because they are latino.
By comparison, an average white woman doesn't have to worry about plainclothes police officers stopping her after she pays a traffic fine, trying to dig up some other crime that they can penalize her for. And this is not by virtue of anything that she has done personally, but simply because she was born white.
Women's privilege over men
I'll try to keep this short, especially because it was probably already covered in the MRA thread. Men are routinely, almost universally shamed and ostracized for being overly emotional. If you are a man, and you cry about something at work, it's very likely that some or all of your coworkers will never hold you in the same regard. You've displayed weakness and lost respect. Really, all you have to do is be somewhat girly in any way to start getting treated poorly.
Now, I haven't been to every workplace or every region of the country, or every country. I am speaking from my personal experience. I have witnessed this type of behavior in pretty much every social setting I've been in. This is also congruent with the experiences of the people I know and talk to.
Obviously, girls don't receive poor treatment for acting girly. But did they choose to be born as girls? No.
This is our third example of privilege, and it is intended to show that the
very same group that has privileges (white males)
is also a victim of under-privilege. I don't know if that's a real word, but you get what I'm saying, right?
Finally, two things about this image:
For one, the fact that humans outside of the first world struggle for basic, physiological needs absolutely does not nullify the belongingness needs some of us here lack. Equality is also a real need, it is an important need, and it is appropriate for people who have secured their other basic needs to pursue this one.
Secondly?