My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male

[TaraJo]

I'm saying this as a white, straight male and I know it would be completely idiotic to say my life is hard compared to black people,

Lemme tell you a story then. Hell, I got a couple of them now.

Me and my family, we're all white as could be. My dad, though, was raised in a ghetto on the west side of Chicago. His was the only family in a predominantly black neighborhood during the civil rights era. His neighbors had little love for white people, with him often being chased and assaulted for little more than his skin color. Some of them even trained their dogs to attack white people, which resulted in my dad having to run for his life from them.

As for me, I'm white but I live in a neighborhood that's predominantly hispanic. My story isn't as difficult as that of my father, but it's not at all uncommon that I'm unable to communicate at all with my neighbors because I don't speak Spanish and they don't speak English.

Not, if either one of us looked at our situation and said "Gee, things would be easier if I belonged to the same racial group as my neighbors," would that be understandable or would it be "idiotic?"

or some females,

Pre-transiton, I had to deal with the family courts. I had enough money deducted from my paychecks for child support that I wasn't able to pay my own basic bills like rent. I've heard a lot of other stories like that from men who have to deal with family courts. It wasn't made any better from the lack of significant social services for men; there were usually several homeless programs or shelters that were exclusive to women while only a handful would let men in and they were usually the dirtiest, dingiest ones out there.

So, would you still tell this guy, beaten and broken, how much privilege he has over women or would you actually sympathize with his situation and say that, yeah, the system sometimes screws men over while giving women a free pass?

I would not choose to be any other person because I'll freely admit I enjoy having it the easy way.

I enjoy the easy life, too, but I'm far less interested in group dynamics than I am in individual situations. Unless you want to try to account for every possible variable, but if you go and account for that much, you might as well just be judging them as individuals insead of as part of a group.