Kudos to Kampire of All Girl Army for the best description of White Male (Heterosexual) (Middle/Upper Class) (Cisgendered) Privilege I’ve read, ever.
It goes:
Privilege is starting a race with the best car and not even knowing it.
And in case you don’t know what Privilege means, here’s some reading that should enlighten you.
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- The Male Privilege Checklist
- “Check my what?” On privilege and what we can do about it
- Who are the Patriarchs, anyway?
This post will be updated occasionally, to include more lovely places in which you may inform yourself, dear reader.
Anna
I love how so many of us keep trying to define privilege in a way that works. It seems there’s an analogy out there for everyone, if only they want to read it. With an open mind, that is.
For example, I could not use the “heterosexual privilege” post on some of my family – they think that them there gays are evil, after all.
nightgigjo
I understand that. I’ve got relatives (and probably some in-laws too, come to think of it) who believe much the same thing — or likely do. (LOTS of Church-of-Christ-ers, and they tend to consider things like drinking and smoking damnable offenses).
I *also* can imagine people I know being at least moderately understanding about Heterosexual Privilege, but not getting the “Male” part of it.
I would also have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do to even get the “Cisgendered” idea across…
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