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

[Dystopia]

I'm not disagreeing with you on this part, but when you get someone like me who has experienced this very real problem and you say things like this, it honestly sounds like you're telling me that my problems aren't as significant as those of my ex. It's incredibly dismissive and hurtful. I'll be honest, my experiences with the family courts are the most painful experiece of my life and it's clearly sexist. Yet, I routinely get those experiences brushed away in environments that talk about privilege all the time, some with outright hostility.

I didn't mean to tell you your problems aren't significant - They are - As a male who respects a lot of views feminists have, I've also acknowledged rational feminists are vehemently against women having privileges such as court gender bias or simple stuff like getting their dinners paid by men, and this is the way it should work anyway - If someone wants to end privilege, you need to end privilege for both sides, and that's why I'm also against affirmative action.

For someone lazy like me to write such a long thread it means I gave it some thought and critical thinking - I put myself into my position and in the position of other groups - Always aiming at the general rule and not the exceptions - There are very successful people/celebrities who are not white, straight, cisgender, male and so on... I'm using as a model the average person in society and not exceptions to the rule - And I've concluded that characteristics I was born with (except maybe the thin part) have given me advantages - Denying that would be unreasonable. It's not all white straight males are oppressors, most are good people with good intentions - I'm a white male myself as I've stated, it would be idiotic to make a racist statement against my own ethnicity. Me having an anti-racist or anti-discrimination position doesn't equate with being anti-men or anti-white or anti-straight, that's exactly what people who, for instance, hate on gays say - That fighting for equal rights is oppressive when it is not, it's not anti-straight, it's just pro-equality.

Cthulu Dreaming - You not having your political ideas represented is something that is prone to change with time, sometimes your party will win, other times it will not, that's just life - I'm not being anti-white, or anti-male, or anti-straight, just anti-prejudice and anti-discrimination - If your political party is not represented in the parliament, that's because society didn't vote for it, and that's completely different from people not liking you just because you have a characteristic that has been there since you were born... And of course this is merely the matter at hand, there are so many issues other than race, or gender, or sexual orientation, I was just using common well known examples, I never said this was only about skin colour, it isn't.