(December 4, 2010 at 10:05 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: It was sometime after the bulk of this thread was posted when I recounted the arguments to several friends of various genders and races to see what they thought. There were some interesting variants, but the one who was the most vocal was a black Christian friend of mine, who came back after a three year tour in Iraq last year. After he finished laughing his head off, he asked what a little white girl living in America who had the time and leisure to think up such an article could possibly know about hardship and "privilege".
To be fair, I know that Eil is from Boston. That could mean one of two things. She is either very privileged or under privileged. She might not be some "white girl" living the high life. On the other hand, she could be. I just wanted to be fair and say that none of us know what her life is like, to my knowledge.
