RE: My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male
January 15, 2015 at 9:33 pm
(January 15, 2015 at 9:05 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:Like white folks can't have a sense of family, or struggle? Check out the Ozarks or Appalachians, dude, or move to a big city like Chicago or NYC. Boston's Southies have plenty of character too.(January 14, 2015 at 11:39 am)Davka Wrote: Interesting is easy. Piercings, tattoos, cross-dressing, walking backwards, calling yourself "Lord of the Mistletoe" - any or all of these can make you interesting. And you can still be white, male, cisgendered, straight, and all the rest.
Sure, of course. However those things listed are still more about being comfortable than being happy. I'd much rather live in the ghetto than in suburbia because it's just not as boring. This view also part of what I would call liberal racism. Where liberal white people just assume that other cultures and people would be better off if they had been born white and western without even bothering to ask them. What about the hispanic sense of family or black sense of struggle. These things have huge value, value probably beyond just being rich and comfortable.
White middle-class doesn't have to mean suburban and boring. It could be Jersey Shores!