Privilege

[lunatickle]

This meme is going around, time to chime in...

As a feminist, especially in the postmodern third-wave storm that was raging when I cut my teeth in the movement, I've spent a lot of time working with privilege -- identifying and acknowledging, working out the guilt people often feel when examining the relationship between the unearned benefits I

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[moominmuppet]

It's a tool, ultimately -- the point in not to get mired in guilt but to try to exploit other people as little as possible, and to use the benefits of my privilege to amplify the voices of folks who are limited by the system that awarded status to me.

*nod* Exactly.

And I find it amusing how much we match on this meme. I think there's only one item we answered differently.