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In reply to the discussion: A very quick comment on the diffusion of white, male privilege... [View all]Skip Intro
(19,768 posts)45. I don't feel privileged at all.
I mean, I may be living large and unaware of that fact because it is just beyond my perception. Anything is possible.
But with the last four years of my life filled with dealing with repeated near foreclosure, no health insurance (no, ACA won't change that for me), exhausted unemployment benefits, food stamps, etc, I gotta say, I don't feel one bit privileged.
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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