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Buzzfeed made a privilege test, I got a 13 and the highest I’ve seen this go was 78

I got 63/100. The gender ones really brought it down, if I was a guy it would’ve been way higher

I got 31/100. It was brought down by all the gender/sexual orientation question, and the questions about depression/suicide, ect.

I got 48.

29

31

60. I live in a very safe place and my family is secure financially so yeah

With the above additions, I kind of thought I’d at least go above 30…

This test is pretty good, but it oversimplifies some things. Like, I don’t have any student loans because 1, I was poor enough to get my one part time semester covered by financial aid, and 2, I never went back to college after that semester because I couldn’t cope with it mentally. I have never done my taxes myself because I’ve never had a job so I’ve never done taxes period, I was on welfare & disability the first 32 years of my life. I don’t count either of those as privileges.

24 out of 100, and I’m white. Some of the questions are regional, I think, though, because Sallie Mae is not a thing in Australia. I don’t have student loans because I flunked out of high school because I had a mental breakdown due to mental health/PTSD/undiagnosed developmental and learning disabilities, but I owe a bunch of money for other reasons (car, vet bills). I also didn’t answer yes to ever being homeless, because I haven’t, but I did sleep on my girlfriend’s bedroom floor at her parents’ house for about eight months because I couldn’t live at home with my uber-religious homophobic mother any more, so. Also, yes, my mother pays some of my bills, but that’s because we live with her because we can’t afford to rent because the rental market doesn’t have anywhere cheap enough for people on disability, so if the questions were different, it might have been lower.

septembriseur:

One thing I was thinking about today was Alexander Pierce. I feel like one thing that’s been under-discussed in Cap 2 meta (at least, from what I’ve seen on my dash— maybe it’s been talked about elsewhere!) is the privilege of Alexander Pierce, a privilege that is very deliberately communicated onscreen.

Pierce, as a character, is visually distinctive: he’s not just an older white man, but a very specific genre of older white man. His three-piece suits and tortoiseshell glasses suggest a fondness for the styles, at least, of some happier past: the gentlemen’s era (to me located sort of vaguely pre-Philby) when men like him knew how to be graceful with power, because it was something that came naturally to them, something they would never have to demand. His charm, his generally pleasant demeanor are of a piece with this— after all, as he himself tells Steve, he’s the diplomat: the one who keeps his hands clean while Nick Fury does what needs to be done.

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Deconstructing Masculinity & Manhood with Michael Kimmel @ Dartmouth College

This is an important message on how privilege really works.

it’s good to remember that we shouldn’t only define ourselves by our marginalized identities. for example I am cis, I am middle class, I am educated, I speak English, I am a documented citizen—remember all of those identities you possess that give you privilege.

Always check your privilege. Everyone has one in some way