RE: My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male
January 15, 2015 at 9:48 pm
(January 15, 2015 at 9:43 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(January 15, 2015 at 9:33 pm)Davka 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.
White middle-class doesn't have to mean suburban and boring. It could be Jersey Shores!
Did you read my post? I actually included white rural into my list and specifically mentioned Kentucky. I'm just addressing the concept of 'privilege' and why it's not neccesarily so great rather than making racial stereotypes. Also the Jersey Shore is people trying (and mostly failing) to make their boring lives interesting.
OK I'm not being clear, sorry about that. It could be the wine.
I'm just trying to say that White Privilege is not at all about white suburbia. I'm living in the mountains in a place that I know damned good-and-well the bank would not have been so pleased to let me buy if I wasn't an educated white boy, capable of doing a decent impression of middle-class.
I agree that white bread and mayo with a picket fence and 2.3 kids is about as exciting as watching paint dry. But that's only a tiny slice of the picture.