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I disagree inasmuch as male privilege does exist but this is a really fucking stupid example to pick and in reality diminishes the seriousness of real issues like the pay gap, glass ceiling, etc.
The real problem in this scenario is other women using the repeated wearing of the same outfit as an excuse to act like assholes.
I'm not a woman, but this doesn't seem like a trivial issue to me. Basically what they're saying is that if you're a woman, you have to invest more time, effort, and money into your wardrobe or face systematic bullying from your peer group. It's almost like a tax. And when money is involved, it seems to me it rises at least roughly into the same echelon as the pay gap, for instance.
One might say men have something similar with... I dunno. Power tools or something? But I don't think a guy is as likely to be as severely bullied over not owning an angle grinder as a woman over wearing the same clothes.
This example of male privilege is one that doesn't involve men so much as, say, the glass ceiling conversation does. Which I'd say means the respondent in that thread should have just butted out. But that doesn't make it straight up not an issue.
This just sounds like an opportunity to ditch the assholes and associate with better people. You're talking about adults who can make their own decisions but you make it sound like high school.
Individual action works, but society must change for the problem to truly be solved.
It is changing but it's going so slowly that it's hard to see progress sometimes.
Society is funny that way. Sometimes you see no change week after week and then two years you look around and go, when did everything change?
And then other times you're like "it will change any day now" and then your grandchildren are still experiencing the same state of affairs.