Something called “standpoint theory” makes a similar claim: people without social power understand people with social power better than powerful people understand the powerless, because the powerless have a greater need to understand: the favor or disfavor of the powerful can have a big effect on the powerless, but having inaccurate beliefs about the powerless usually won’t affect the powerful very much. (So domestic servants understand their employers better than employers understand their domestic servants, blacks understand whites better than whites understand blacks, and women understand men better than men understand women.)
Something called “standpoint theory” makes a similar claim: people without social power understand people with social power better than powerful people understand the powerless, because the powerless have a greater need to understand: the favor or disfavor of the powerful can have a big effect on the powerless, but having inaccurate beliefs about the powerless usually won’t affect the powerful very much. (So domestic servants understand their employers better than employers understand their domestic servants, blacks understand whites better than whites understand blacks, and women understand men better than men understand women.)
That’s really interesting, thank you.