a few non-exhaustive words about privilege

[sophiaserpentia]

A friend pointed me to this list of privilege the other day. Quoting bits which are relevant to frequent discussion in this journal:

privilege is consistently responding to disagreement, criticism, and concerns with condescension and hostility, then accusing the unprivileged of being irrational, inconsistent, duplicitous, guileful, and unappeasable

privilege is feeling entitled to the conformity in behaviours and attitudes of the unprivileged

privilege is not having to be self-conscious and self-critical

privilege is the habit of seeking power and influence over others

the privileged sees power over others as success

privilege is the ability to start, end, and avoid discussion with little consequence

privilege is shelter from direct consequences

privilege is feeling entitled to be better off than others

I want to add a few of my own:

Privilege means not having to wonder, ever, if people around you are regularly putting your needs ahead of theirs.

Privilege means being able to laugh at certain kinds of joke instead of being aware of your inferiority.

Privilege means not having to worry about the effects of your words or actions.

Edit. It was correctly pointed out that this list reflects the automatic assumption or perhaps assertion-by-default of privilege.

Comments

[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

Nothing. This is just another one of the nasty people who are completely inimical to you, who never have anything to bring here but complaints when you stand up for yourself, who are clearly unable to comprehend anything you write, who feel perfectly justified in demanding you explain yourself or demanding I explain myself for saying something here in a space you maintain and which belongs to you. One of those people I can't figure out why you tolerate.
You can't have a dialogue with someone who can't tell the difference between being deliberately offensive and passing it off as "humor" and then say your completely valid anger towards a religious hierarchy which enforces oppression towards you and your family as well as billions of others on the planet makes you a hypocrite. Anyone calling you a hypocrite is not your friend. Anyone coming here to insult feminists is not your friend. You may continue a useless dialogue with those hostile to you if you like because you have that freedom, but I also want to emphasize that you are not morally, legally, ethically, or otherwise obligated to try to explain anything to people who do stuff like quoting an obscene comedian to justify their day-to-day nastiness.

[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

I mean, consider that these people came to YOUR journal and told YOU that YOU need to "tone down" some of the things you write because THEY don't like them.
These are NOT your friends.