(January 23, 2019 at 11:06 am)tackattack Wrote:(January 22, 2019 at 4:39 pm)PRJA93 Wrote:Careful, someone might call you out on your straight privilegespecific excerpt
I'm well aware that there or challenges I do not have to face in life, and I'm cool with that. It sucks that some people have to constantly think about their sexuality or race or whatever... but honestly, it's just not my problem. As adults, we all have to manage our own emotions and reactions to things in life - even if people are being nasty to us because of something we cannot change about ourselves. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't be sensitive to one another's differences, because it requires very little effort on our parts to do so, so why not? If all I have to do to respect someone's gender identity and help them feel validated, like any human that's straight, gay or otherwise, wants to feel validated, is say "she" instead of "he," or vice-versa, then cool, I'm happy to do that.
But if someone's going to tell me I've had an easy life, and that my life's been easy because I'm a straight white male, I would kindly ask that person to remove their head from their ass, because my life has not been easy.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
