RE: My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male
December 27, 2014 at 6:13 pm
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2014 at 6:14 pm by TaraJo.)
(December 27, 2014 at 5:11 pm)Blackout Wrote: It means one group possesses higher social power over the other
Then do you also recognize that who has privilege will change depending on situation? For example, white people have greater privilege most the time, but if you're white and living in a ghetto neighborhood, you can literally get killed for that. Being tall is generally advantageous, but it makes it a nightmare for me to find clothes that fit. Males are generally considered to have privilege, even though male suicide rates and workplace fatalitie rates are far higher for them than for women.
Can you recognize these differences in situation or do you view privilege as some monolythic, adamant concept?
As far as thin privilege goes, I have a friend who's one of those people who can't put on weight no matter how much she eats. She regularly gets told to eat a damn cheesburger or accused of being anorexic. I guess that's all part of thin privilege too, isn't it?
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama