What Is The Difference Between Equal Treatment And Special Privileged Treatment

What’s the difference between equal opportunity employment and affirmative action?

"What’s the difference between equal opportunity employment and affirmative action?"

Equal Opportunity means just what it says. Everyone has an equal opportunity to apply and compete for a position. Affirmative Action on the other hand, is just a fancy way of saying "job quotas". And for the most part, those quotas actually discriminate against men's Right to an equal Opportunity, since men are often not even given the opportunity to compete with otherwise equal women.

Affirmative Action no longer makes sense at all since pretty much all women of working age have never been legally discriminated against for their entire lives. This insinuates that all women, even those given equal or privileged treatment (with all sorts of girl "empowering" programs and workshops not available to boys in their school years) -still- require privileges to meet men as equals. Whether this is true or not is something that we don't know, because women and girls have been privileged for generations now, for as long as most of us have been alive.
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Men and women weren't created equal... right?

Giving women special treatment to become equal with men, in its self, is sexist. Affirmative action is sexist, so is the VAWA, female only scholarships, etc., etc., etc. By the government trying to make things fair, it has actually created a good amount of sexism, contradicting it's strife for equality. Women & men have different sports teams, different bathrooms, different ideas, opinions, so why should we try to pretend that they can do everything that the other sex can do? I believe women and men have different values in society, one does this, and the other does that. Giving women equal opportunities is good, but shouldn't we actually give them equal opportunities? Instead of having female scholarships for only women, shouldn't we also have scholarships for only men? White men - to be more specific?

And, feminist are not fighting for equal opportunities, as another user put it. They are fighting for benefits. They've actually pushed to get a woman into the green beret, with little training, yet they can't fight to get women into the selective services? Why? Do they think women are too good for grunt work? They want rights that benefit them, not men. They are against your argument. They want women to get free entrance into certain benefits, but at the same time they want women to be considered equal,or better, to men.

@Hannah Men and women are different. Have you seen how many men have died in Iraq compared to women? Don't think you're special just because you were sent to a comfortable bunker away from battle, while the men were fighting. Women also have lowered standards in the military, can you believe women are now starting to get harder restrictions to join the marines? Of course women can work in prisons, doesn't make them special. When you have a weapon, staff to back you up, and authority over prisoners, I wouldn't say it makes you any stronger of a person. Now, I'd like to see you try on BTK outside of prison, it would be a different story. Make women's standards to join the army, police, fire fighters equal, so the tough women of the world can sit down.

Why should feminists receive equality if men don't get special treatment and are forced into Selective Service?

From the many articles of crap I've read online, it seems women initally have it easier and men have to fight and speak up get those same types of special privilgences, and don't think I forgot about this new "Selective Serrvice" law where men 18 to 25 are forced to sign up due to coerion by threats of jailtime if they don't, something women don't have to worry about.

I believe men who don't join selective service, sure enough, need to work for what they wany, but as for the men who were forced to join against their will all because of their gender, they should receive special treatment even over feminists to balance out the unfairness of having to sign up for slective service, being on the front lines of combat, and going through grueling basic training.

If you want true equality, then you should understand that men need rights and privelegdes over women to offset the initial sepcial rights that women get that men don't. If you have ALL of the rights men have but you also keep your special rights for women AND you don't receive all of the responsiblies that men have, such having to sign up for Selective Service, then that's not equality, that's superiority, and such a concept makes me sick to me stomach.

If you want equality, then you must BALANCE OUT AND OFFSET things. A man should be able to have all the exact same rights and special priveledges women want other women to have, if you truly advocate true equality between both genders.

SInce a man's life is just as important as a woman's life, at least that's what I believe, then you should be wanting other women to be forced into selective service with all the same responsiblies as men have, so that it's fair and equal.

True equality means not only all the same rights and responsiblites among both genders, but it also means eliminating Ladies Night, eliminating all-woman gyms like "Curves", and any other perks women have been getting over men. Unless that's done, it's not equality. For you to have all the same rights as men yet not carry all responsiblies as men, and still keep your Ladies Night and gyms like "Cruves", again, that's superiority, not equality. You should be outraged and trying to stop those things. Afterall, women get equaal pay for the exact same job and men face a higher food bill than women do.

Why are people who are disabled treated differently?

PWDs are treated "differently" to help make living with a Disability easier.

I am forced to use a Wheelchair a lot of the time. I also wear feet-ankle braces and sometimes I use a quad-cane.

I have permanent state given Handicapped Parking tags for my motor vehicle. To have such a privilege makes things much easier for me in living with a Disability.

Whenever I fly, I always use wheelchair assistance at the airport. By doing so, I am able to cut into the security point check-in scan line and be the first person to be scanned by airport security instead of waiting in line. To have such a privilege makes things much easier for me in living with a Disability.

I very much greatly appreciate in being treated "differently" by being given various "Disability Privileges". When I am given a "Disability Privilege", I ALWAYS take it because it makes things much easier for me in living with a Disability.