$“$Why not think that women are better able to reflect critically on masculinity and male experience than men since they do not need to imagine the perspective of the oppressed? I think there is a lot to be said for this position. Just as men are in a better position for data gathering about male experience and roles because of being directly acquainted with them; so women have a better position for critically assessing male experience since they are not as likely to be biased in favor of that experience. Men will be better at certain aspects of the study of male experience and roles and women will be better at other aspects. But in both cases, these are only initial advantages for some members of these groups. Other members of the group will still have difficulty attaining a progressive standpoint, and no one is completely blocked from attaining this standpoint just because he or she lacks certain experience. Since men are generally not discriminated against on grounds of sex, and do not suffer from unequal treatment merely because they are male, it is not easy for them to take on the critical standpoint of one who has been adversely affected by a set of discriminatory roles and practices.