[geoffbrown2014]

I think a better word than privilege would be network. Networks confer priviledge to their members. That's less personal than saying you're priveledged. Out groups would like to be included in prosperous networks. Who wouldn't? I don't believe networks are just about providing value. If they were, women and others would already be included. Networks are also very much about identity and loyalty and fitness signalling. My limited understanding of women's issues around this appear clustered around fairness. Essentially this amounts to a recess argument that the boys are having more fun and that's not fair. Obviously a gross oversimplification, but the vernacular of the argument will fall on deaf ears more likely than not. It's not that you are wrong you just aren't playing by the "rules".