Reply #146: agreed, stuck...

[Triana]

...many people are so privileged, that their privilege is invisible to them. They so take it for granted that they don't even realize it's there. Until those doors get arbitrarily slammed in their faces because they are or are NOT some skin color, nationality, religion, or sex, they don't even realize how wide open the opportunities are to them - because they've never known anything except that wide openness. If it suddenly wasn't there anymore, THEN we'd hear them scream. Meanwhile, a lot of people just don't have a clue what it's like to sit on the other side of privilege based on sex, color, religion, whatever. They would insist that discrimination doesn't exist because THEY never experienced it themselves.

Eyes Wide Shut...doors wide open, and they haven't a clue.

I'm a 'minority'. And some people I know who ought to know better would insist to their death I'm not discriminated against because THEY never experienced it themselves. They haven't even a tiny clue...and I sit here wondering why, when I'm more qualified for a job, promotion, assignment, recongition, whatever - that person or persons always get it handed to them, instead. I've a lifetime of this pattern, and the person(s) for whom those doors were flung open whilst they were slammed in my face - still insist discrimination doesn't exist - and it doesn't - for THEM.