LadyPact
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I'm seriously trying to figure out how anybody could read at least 95% of the stuff that I write on the forums and not figure out that I absolutely think I'm privileged. I just happen to piss people off because I say so. Just off of the top of my head from relatively recent posting alone: I'm het. I'm cis. I happen to be white. I have no physical or mental disabilities. I'm upper middle class. (Financially.) I'm poly, have the ability to engage in poly, and even more than that I am what a lot of poly people call couples privileged. (Yeah, I know that one might sound weird to non-poly people, but it's a whole topic by itself.) I have medical care that I don't (financially) pay for. No insurance premiums, co-pays, and so on. (This one's pretty big in the USA.) I live less than thirty minutes from the closest kink club and it's open every day of the week. I'm a top and I do happen to think there can be some privileges associated with that. (Debatable to some, I'm sure. Just my opinion.) That's nowhere near the end of the list. It's just some of the big chunk stuff from threads this weekend. Here's the thing, though. I actually see my privilege for what it is and recognize that some other people don't have the same. That's kind of why it's called privilege in the first place. I do think that at least some (not you, or just you) don't really see the privileges they have, don't think they ARE privileges, are oblivious to it, or some such thing. Kind of hard for me to describe because I can't connect to it. Just about any cis gendered person that went anyplace outside their own home yesterday most likely had instances of privilege, whether they call it privilege or not.
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