06-17-2016, 02:27 PM
(06-17-2016, 02:05 PM)Duchess Wrote:(06-17-2016, 02:01 PM)sally Wrote: Unless you're over in Haiti or somewhere watching your child starve to death I don't think you have any business telling anyone to check their privilege.
Have you heard that expression before?
I'm so uncool. I still have to use the Urban Dictionary.
This is the first I've heard it, but I take it to mean that if you're not a minority, gay or a woman (basically anything other than a straight white male) then you have no idea how tough it is out there and it's offensive for you to think that you do.
My husband is a straight white male who came to this country at 14 and was left here with a jar of pennies and not knowing a lick of English. He did live with some people as a foreign exchange student, but as soon as they found out that his father had no intentions of sending them money to support him they got pissed and he had to get a job after school working illegally as a dishwasher. If anyone told him now to check his privilege that would be a joke.
Well unless it's with online gaming. Maybe men do have a definite advantage over women when it comes to that. Not sure.