rethinking"Privilege" depends on context and content. As a queer person, I've often felt weird about the blanket idea of "straight privilege" because I feel totally liberated in my gender expression, whereas straight people are often still caught in neurotic mental prisons of how they've been told they're "supposed" to behave. Many aspects of my life are better specifically *because* I'm not "privileged" -- and at that point, what does privilege even mean?<br>
I think we need to add a heavy dose of nuance to privilege-based discourse. What most people call marginalization is a combination of 1) state-based discrimination (e.g. in laws, policing, healthcare, and the courts) and 2) attitude-based discrimination (stereotypes and prejudices). People who do not have these barriers have an easier time consolidating power, and as a result of all the above they are said to be "privileged".<br>
But there is more to privilege. We should distinguish between power within "big groups" (the state + media) vs. "small groups" (such as small businesses, nonprofits, friend groups, political orgs, religious orgs, and so on), and we should distinguish between identity-based benefits and identity-based drawbacks for any identity in any type of group. We should also identify personalized benefits and drawbacks to different identity categories -- how a specific identity might affect two people differently due to differences in their values, personality quirks, goals, and contexts, and due to variations within the identity category itself (e.g. "mentally ill" captures a massive range of very different experiences).<br>
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