Please check your feeds

Even if you’re receiving updates to this site just fine, PLEASE check to see which feed address you’re subscribed to. If it’s: http://feeds.blindprivilege.com/blindprivilege Please update it to: http://feeds.whatprivilege.com/whatprivilege. You can do this by using the link at the top of the sidebar. I’ll be deleting the blindprivilege feed soon (and eventually the whole domain, so [...]

What it’s like to be a woman

Ever wondered what it’s like to be a woman in a sexist culture? Or maybe you think sexism is all over now and why don’t we women stop our whining already? Check this out. A reader at Feministe wrote in, asking for advice because a co-worker sexually “harassed” (actually this qualifies as assault) her after [...]

Trolling: the privilege of way too much time on your hands

Usually when we think of trolls, we think about people being overt assholes: insulting, flaming, baiting, derailing. But there is a some subtle troll behavior you should watch out for: commenting on something you haven’t read. There are several major indicators of this kind of troll: It actually has the gall to begin comments with [...]

Privilege even in veganism

Recently, I was re-subjected on Hathor to a popular but not universal vegan position: that the only reasons anyone eats meat are tradition and pleasure. That no one eats meat because they must. We can just eat rice, beans and grains in lieu of meat. That assertion is rolling in privilege. Specifically, the privilege of [...]

Hypocrisy and credibility issues for the U.S.A.

After the 2004 presidential election, I engaged in some surprisingly restrained discussion between Americans and Europeans. The Europeans felt betrayed by not only Bush, but the people who voted for him. They were actually afraid of what the United States might do under his leadership in Iraq and elsewhere. The Americans, for the most part, [...]

Why money can matter more than IQ and EQ put together

I’ve been reading Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. It’s considered an essential work on the subject, and I’m getting a lot out of it. But after detailing the staggering hours children need to fit into honing a craft like sports or music (and he acknowledges you really do have [...]

Compulsory health insurance and no end to inflated medical costs

I know many of you reading this are thrilled with the passage of the universal health care bill. There are several aspects of it I love, too. To name two, we should’ve been protected from that “pre-existing condition” bullshit thirty years ago, and anything that makes Medicare work better is going to help out some [...]

On changing the name to What Privilege

A few months ago, we had a discussion about whether the original name of this website, Blind Privilege, was ableist. As is typical when someone raises a question like this, there were several people who agreed with changing the name and several who thought it wasn’t necessary. And a few who thought it was ridiculous [...]

Abused kids can’t really sue their parents

I recently searched online for the question of how an adult abuse survivor might go about suing his or her abusive parent. The results I got astounded me, but they shouldn’t have. I know my country wants parents abusing its kids. It makes this clear so many ways. This is just one more. First, the [...]

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