Vad Wrote:Hate: Finding out the hard way that with enough sleep deprivation my mind loses it's capability to keep my anxiety at bay. Holy shit panic attacks like a motherfucker.

Pinky Wrote:The idea of privilage ignores variation from sources like culture, quality of parents, lessons learned, expectations, choices made, etc. There's a lot that goes into a life that alters results, and focusing on privilage is both lazy and self indulgent. It pulls down the target of envy rather than building up yourself. Of course, thinking like that would lead one to the ideas of personal responsibility, accountability, judging lifestyle and culture objectively instead of pretending they're all equally valid, maybe even emulating success.

I understand that blaming a wrong in your life on factors beyond control is secudtive. But also realize that since the Single White Male doesn't have such an excuse. If you think about it, maybe that's a blessing in desguise that gets lost on the lazy and self indulgent.

Rose Wrote:I honestly hate journalism.

Agreement or disagreement with the views it presents aside, that article is bullshit. It presents itself as a jaunty explanation for straight white males as to why they're privileged. If he actually wanted to convince people who disagree, or make a difference - y'know, be an actual groundbreaking journalist - he'd present it more sympathetically. It's presented in as condescending a manner as possible, aimed purely at people who already agree. Because it's guaranteed to get a thousand shares from the folks who already do nothing but link to carbon copies of this article written on feminist blogs, with gay rights and being as popular as they are.

It's fucking old news, but hey, the bandwagon is there and apparently you don't even have to add an interesting argument to jump on it anymore and have people think you're a bold genius for being so forward-thinking and out there. Guess what? The president of the US is black.

He didn't mention people with learning disabilities, or people living in undeveloped countries, for example. Why? Because there are much fewer of those people on the internet to share and like his article, and if it doesn't apply directly to you, people don't give a shit. Honestly makes me angry.