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In reply to the discussion: Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is [View all]malthaussen
(17,187 posts)Much of presumptive SWM privilege, however, is not institutional. Those who favor such programs will argue that they are an inadequate compensation for the prejudice which is the underlying presumption for SWM privilege. Given that most learning is done by individuals from their own life experiences, it is unlikely that one who has suffered discrimination based on being a SWM is going to embrace the concept that he is actually privileged. This is where all of those bell-curves I talked about earlier run up against Real Life -- which is usually much messier than statistics.
Shifting the discussion exclusively to one of class, however, will ignore the fact that the misery is not distributed proportionately, and thus it is unlikely that one who suffers from such disproportionate allocation is going to advocate ignoring his stake in the game.
I don't much mind being everyone else's Satan. It has nothing to do with me. Straight, white, male -- I fully understand why Orthodox Jews open the day with a prayer thanking god they were not born female.
-- Mal