Thank you, thank you, thank you for acknowleging this. I've been trying to get a few of my upper-middle class friends to realize this, but they just don't get it. In being privleged their whole lives, in so many ways, they can't understand that I haven't had the same opportunities and don't have the same economic mobility as them. But they sometimes make me feel ashamed for not being so financially accomplished, and it frustrates me to no end.
Oh, I just wanted to add that there is no homogenous experience of maleness or of race, or of class, for that matter. Growing up as a queer white kid on the Navajo Reservation (and on welfare) I wasn't exactly extended any of the privileges people assume come with being white and male.
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Date: 2008-04-17 09:42 pm (UTC)Oh, I just wanted to add that there is no homogenous experience of maleness or of race, or of class, for that matter. Growing up as a queer white kid on the Navajo Reservation (and on welfare) I wasn't exactly extended any of the privileges people assume come with being white and male.