Comments on: Personal Privilege List http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/ so you think you don't have any Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:36:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Blind Privilege » Blog Archive » Extraversion privilege http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-1146 Blind Privilege » Blog Archive » Extraversion privilege Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:25:57 +0000 http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-1146 [...] all started from a comment made by DNi on my post, Personal Privilege List. I started thinking about it, then some stuff happened, then I [...] [...] all started from a comment made by DNi on my post, Personal Privilege List. I started thinking about it, then some stuff happened, then I [...]

]]> By: josh johnson http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-1044 josh johnson Wed, 06 May 2009 20:47:54 +0000 http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-1044 If you are in any relationship with other human beings you are giving privileges and enjoying privileges given to you. Do you have limits to what you will do sexually? Then those are privileges you either extend or don't extend to yourself(OH!) and others(OHOH!!). Did you have a curfew as a teenager? Do you drive a car? Can your government declare an emergency requiring a curfew? THen the ability to go out late at night is a privilege because it can be taken away for any number of reasons. If you are reading this right now, you have privileges that can be taken away so you can't read this. If you can't name privileges you have until your voice gets raspy, you are probably taking them for granted. If you are in any relationship with other human beings you are giving privileges and enjoying privileges given to you. Do you have limits to what you will do sexually? Then those are privileges you either extend or don’t extend to yourself(OH!) and others(OHOH!!).

Did you have a curfew as a teenager? Do you drive a car? Can your government declare an emergency requiring a curfew? THen the ability to go out late at night is a privilege because it can be taken away for any number of reasons.

If you are reading this right now, you have privileges that can be taken away so you can’t read this. If you can’t name privileges you have until your voice gets raspy, you are probably taking them for granted.

]]> By: Jennifer Kesler http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-969 Jennifer Kesler Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:51:30 +0000 http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-969 LOL, I was actually thinking about this a few days ago, and came to a different conclusion. Intelligence is a blessing, not a privilege. Blessing: something that comes to you NOT from other humans, and therefore isn't something they can take away. Privilege: something granted to you by other humans, which they can take away. It's an important distinction because the two get processed differently by society. Privilege is about power, and about privileged people controlling who gets to share their power. When the universe bestows blessings (intelligence, talent, charisma, etc.) on seemingly random individuals, that threatens the privilege system. This is why intelligent people need to be mistreated if they aren't also members of a privileged group - they're proof that privilege isn't the final arbiters of who has value and who doesn't. LOL, I was actually thinking about this a few days ago, and came to a different conclusion.

Intelligence is a blessing, not a privilege.

Blessing: something that comes to you NOT from other humans, and therefore isn’t something they can take away.

Privilege: something granted to you by other humans, which they can take away.

It’s an important distinction because the two get processed differently by society. Privilege is about power, and about privileged people controlling who gets to share their power. When the universe bestows blessings (intelligence, talent, charisma, etc.) on seemingly random individuals, that threatens the privilege system. This is why intelligent people need to be mistreated if they aren’t also members of a privileged group – they’re proof that privilege isn’t the final arbiters of who has value and who doesn’t.

]]> By: Firebird http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-968 Firebird Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:21:23 +0000 http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-968 I think intelligence is a privilege. I didn't, after all, do anything to earn my intelligence, and yet I am. In some ways, everyday society punishes the intelligent for the privilege, but ultimately it is something easily taken for granted which cannot really be replaced with any other quality. I think intelligence is a privilege. I didn’t, after all, do anything to earn my intelligence, and yet I am. In some ways, everyday society punishes the intelligent for the privilege, but ultimately it is something easily taken for granted which cannot really be replaced with any other quality.

]]> By: Jennifer Kesler http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-655 Jennifer Kesler Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:30:48 +0000 http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-655 No problem. :) I don't have anything to add, but I do agree about the ridiculous stigma against introverts. No problem. :)

I don’t have anything to add, but I do agree about the ridiculous stigma against introverts.

]]> By: sam http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-654 sam Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:26:40 +0000 http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-654 sorry for the diatribe sorry for the diatribe

]]> By: sam http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-653 sam Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:24:23 +0000 http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-653 as a late 50 something introvert, I can definetely attest to thefact that introversion is ones personality make-up that isn't somethin one chooses. I would never have chosen to be beaten up through-out myschool days and upon being beaten-up because I was weird (?), I would have chosen to not be weird, sinceit hurt less. My mother tells me I was always a quiet childcrying only when hungry or needing a change. I wasn't shy, liked people but would become tired of their presence. Growing-up, I was made tobelieve I was shy and that was confusing, because I never felt averse to people, anxious, or socially inept. I just could never understand why others needed to be with people all the time, they just never seemed to wind down for me. I always needed my space and time without all that chatter, running around and what looked like mindless activity. My mother have my quiet and would create such drama I would just watch and wonder...what is she doing and why ? My Dad never made me feel in any sense strange or different, I always felt okay being me. In school I was this freak that had to be corrected in some way, at work I have been subjected to the same but with the aggression that comes from adult ignorance and fears. Some people say I am arrogant, haughty, antisocial, hate people, have been traumitized, am evil, untrustworthy or the person tolook to when something is awry. After all "it's those quiet people you have to watch". My few friends, few because not everyone can be a friend tome, usually let me remember the good things about me, I am stable (emotionally, mentally), reliable, make sense out of their dramas, care deeply for humanity and sometimes go out of my way to ensure someone else's dignity. As a teenager for a few years I hated me, really believed I was some kind of abnormal freak but also during those years I became acquainted with people who saw me as justa quiet human and liked who I was. I remember being the person people came to when theywanted to talk (I was not emotionally all stirred up). Even afterall these years the bullying hasn't stopped, nor has the ability to sit with someone, when they need to be quiet and with someone at the same time. At some point in my younger life I realized that this was ME, not a freak, not different or needing to be changed. I am not wiser than anyone else, more learned or in any way better, just true to mybetter instincts becauseI have actually been able to hear them without the chatter. If there is anything about me that I feel blessed with, it's the sense that people feel safe in my presence when safety is what they need! They one lesson I learned from being bullied, beat-up, ostracized and demeaned in so many different ways, it was that I never wanted anyone to suffer what I had and never have those acts come from me. I just feel for those introverts growing up in our current culture of violence, meanness and narrow minded ignorance. Brutality towards others who maybe different isn't a moral / ethical issue anymore it just seems to be a right of expression and much too acceptable when it's acted upon. Without others nurturing me and my humanity, Imight have lostsightof being a human being and adopted the belief that I was some creature who needed toassert my existence. I am a minority person, female, introvert and in no way born to any privelege. The only thing special about it, is that I never lost sight of the preciousness of being human. as a late 50 something introvert, I can definetely attest to thefact that introversion is ones personality make-up that isn’t somethin one chooses. I would never have chosen to be beaten up through-out myschool days and upon being beaten-up because I was weird (?), I would have chosen to not be weird, sinceit hurt less. My mother tells me I was always a quiet childcrying only when hungry or needing a change. I wasn’t shy, liked people but would become tired of their presence. Growing-up, I was made tobelieve I was shy and that was confusing, because I never felt averse to people, anxious, or socially inept. I just could never understand why others needed to be with people all the time, they just never seemed to wind down for me. I always needed my space and time without all that chatter, running around and what looked like mindless activity. My mother have my quiet and would create such drama I would just watch and wonder…what is she doing and why ? My Dad never made me feel in any sense strange or different, I always felt okay being me. In school I was this freak that had to be corrected in some way, at work I have been subjected to the same but with the aggression that comes from adult ignorance and fears. Some people say I am arrogant, haughty, antisocial, hate people, have been traumitized, am evil, untrustworthy or the person tolook to when something is awry. After all “it’s those quiet people you have to watch”. My few friends, few because not everyone can be a friend tome, usually let me remember the good things about me, I am stable (emotionally, mentally), reliable, make sense out of their dramas, care deeply for humanity and sometimes go out of my way to ensure someone else’s dignity. As a teenager for a few years I hated me, really believed I was some kind of abnormal freak but also during those years I became acquainted with people who saw me as justa quiet human and liked who I was. I remember being the person people came to when theywanted to talk (I was not emotionally all stirred up). Even afterall these years the bullying hasn’t stopped, nor has the ability to sit with someone, when they need to be quiet and with someone at the same time. At some point in my younger life I realized that this was ME, not a freak, not different or needing to be changed. I am not wiser than anyone else, more learned or in any way better, just true to mybetter instincts becauseI have actually been able to hear them without the chatter. If there is anything about me that I feel blessed with, it’s the sense that people feel safe in my presence when safety is what they need! They one lesson I learned from being bullied, beat-up, ostracized and demeaned in so many different ways, it was that I never wanted anyone to suffer what I had and never have those acts come from me. I just feel for those introverts growing up in our current culture of violence, meanness and narrow minded ignorance. Brutality towards others who maybe different isn’t a moral / ethical issue anymore it just seems to be a right of expression and much too acceptable when it’s acted upon. Without others nurturing me and my humanity, Imight have lostsightof being a human being and adopted the belief that I was some creature who needed toassert my existence. I am a minority person, female, introvert and in no way born to any privelege. The only thing special about it, is that I never lost sight of the preciousness of being human.

]]> By: Dragyn http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-587 Dragyn Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:36:41 +0000 http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-587 I think your family counts. you certainly didn't earn it. Actually, it may be the biggest bestower of privilege: your appearance (genetic), race education, personal development, where you were born, whether you have a safety net. Not that you can do anything to make these privileges more evenly spread, unless you take people from their mothers as infants and raise them in communal nurseries (can you feel the creepy brave new world vibes) I think your family counts. you certainly didn’t earn it. Actually, it may be the biggest bestower of privilege: your appearance (genetic), race education, personal development, where you were born, whether you have a safety net. Not that you can do anything to make these privileges more evenly spread, unless you take people from their mothers as infants and raise them in communal nurseries (can you feel the creepy brave new world vibes)

]]> By: scarlett http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-24 scarlett Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:29:58 +0000 http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-24 And I live in a country where I pay $5 for the most expensive of forgome contraceptions. I need to start a list of my own. Oh, and I'm NEVER leaving Australia. And I live in a country where I pay $5 for the most expensive of forgome contraceptions.
I need to start a list of my own. Oh, and I’m NEVER leaving Australia.

]]> By: scarlett http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-23 scarlett Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:48:10 +0000 http://whatprivilege.com/personal-privilege-list/#comment-23 And I forgot--- Because I'm tall and slim with blond hair and a fair complexion, fashion and makeup is designed for me, and I can walk into any boutique and find a dress I like. And I forgot—
Because I’m tall and slim with blond hair and a fair complexion, fashion and makeup is designed for me, and I can walk into any boutique and find a dress I like.

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