Men Matter: Men Enforcing Male Privilege Hurts Men

(Men Matter is our continuing series on the ways in which feminists do a good job of keeping men in mind, as a loose sort of counter to the anti-feminist meme that feminists ignore harms done to men. See the first installment for more information.)

Melissa McEwan of Shakesville takes note of the scapegoating of men that implies that men = harassers:

I just want to note that none of the day laborers have been accused of, arrested for, or convicted of assaulting a women while she was trying to get into the Jack in the Box—which means that "the men in blue" posing as contractors and running the sting are presuming these male day laborers to be sexual predators just because they're men. (Also because they're swarthy men, but the emphasis here is on the "men" part.) Just another example of how its the people enforcing male privilege who inevitably have the dimmest view of men [emphasis added].