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In reply to the discussion: A very quick comment on the diffusion of white, male privilege... [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)20. Excellent post, but I would add heterosexual privilege to that list.
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A very quick comment on the diffusion of white, male privilege... [View all]
Gravitycollapse
Nov 2013
OP
what is the point of your post? Most all here acknowledge white privilege and male privilege
Pretzel_Warrior
Nov 2013
#1
You missed the point. You don't have to be a bad guy to be a part of the problem.
Gravitycollapse
Nov 2013
#2
yes. that is part of institutional racism. people who stand by and let privilege rule. however,
Pretzel_Warrior
Nov 2013
#7
no, they don't. i have seen a gazillion post denying any privilege of any group
La Lioness Priyanka
Nov 2013
#3
no, it's not. people borrow things from academia without context/definitions all the time
La Lioness Priyanka
Nov 2013
#116
I'm saying that for every example, there's an (at least) equally compelling counterexample.
lumberjack_jeff
Nov 2013
#60
In my daily life, I work with the disabled in a impoverished community.
lumberjack_jeff
Nov 2013
#87
No, it exists. You just don't want to admit it exists. Or you can't see it.
Gravitycollapse
Nov 2013
#88
I don't want to "admit" that leprechauns exist. I can't see them either. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Nov 2013
#89
Yes, and the abundance of feminist and queer analyses and theory is wrong.
Gravitycollapse
Nov 2013
#95
I see what you're saying, Jeff, although it doesn't disprove my point, either.
AverageJoe90
Nov 2013
#120
"First society doesn't consciously send black people to jail because they are black"
ismnotwasm
Nov 2013
#62
Great post. Unfortunately, some get so defensive that they feel they are being personally attacked..
YoungDemCA
Nov 2013
#22
Exactly. The responses to the thread in this forum trying to examine why so many whites vote Repub
Number23
Nov 2013
#26
Not just male. I've walked away from so many feminist conversations because I am so sick and fucking
Number23
Nov 2013
#24
"Vote Democratic?"... yes, all the time... every time.. until they get really stupid too
uponit7771
Nov 2013
#93
Privilege is not someone showing up at your house and handing you a million dollars.
Gravitycollapse
Nov 2013
#67
GC, while I realize full well that I, as a "white" "cis" guy that I am certainly more fortunate.....
AverageJoe90
Nov 2013
#46
that's because women are the weaker sex! oh us women... we may become hysterical!!
ejpoeta
Nov 2013
#79
"Not being consistently viewed as a sexual object is something men benefit from every single day of
Vashta Nerada
Nov 2013
#94
Two things: First, 18-22 year old Facebook pages are not even remotely close...
Gravitycollapse
Nov 2013
#100
If your claim is your school is a egalitarian sexist utopia, you're wrong.
Gravitycollapse
Nov 2013
#103
I don't feel comfortable giving away information like that on a public discussion forum.
Vashta Nerada
Nov 2013
#108
If you're too afraid to give a specific example, don't talk about how said example is so important.
Gravitycollapse
Nov 2013
#109
What's so hard about understanding that I don't want to be stalked online?
Vashta Nerada
Nov 2013
#111
That's the risk you take when you use your personal life as specific counter examples.
Gravitycollapse
Nov 2013
#115
Yes, actually you did. You are using that one example to counter everything else.
Gravitycollapse
Nov 2013
#117