unpacking the invisible knapsack

hay k8. I hear you are an admissions blogger for the mitty school. I have a quastion.

Do you think I will get into mitty?

pls answer quicklike.

CHRISTINA.

I HATE YOU.

first of all, do i have ANY pr skills? no. this weekend i accidentally made one prefrosh temped in next house cry because i said i don't think they have any parties there. WHICH IS PROBABLY FALSE AND I APOLOGISED A LOT.

okay and she didn't really cry.

but i would just not be a good admissions blogger.

did i mention i hate you?

I don't think it's just white privilege. I think it's white, Anglo-Saxon, male, heterosexual, Protestant privilege. I cannot count on any of the following things as a gay woman (and believe me, I have a *ton* of white privilege):

2. I can avoid spending time with people whom I was trained to mistrust and who have learned to mistrust my kind or me.

4. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.

5. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.

14. I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them.

21. I am never asked to speak for all the people of my [sexual orientation] group.

27. I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in, rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance or feared.

32. My culture gives me little fear about ignoring the perspectives and powers of people of other races.

40. I can choose public accommodation without fearing that people of my [sexual orientation] cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.

41. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my [sexual orientation] will not work against me.

42. I can arrange my activities so that I will never have to experience feelings of rejection owing to my [sexual orientation].

And especially the last four, which need no change in wording:

47. I can travel alone or with my spouse without expecting embarrassment or hostility in those who deal with us.

48. I have no difficulty finding neighborhoods where people approve of our household.

49. My children are given texts and classes which implicitly support our kind of family unit and do not turn them against my choice of domestic partnership.

50. I will feel welcomed and "normal" in the usual walks of public life, institutional and social.

Okay, I'm sorry. Do not hate me. Hate Allison Berry. She is the one who made that sly comment, I swear.

k that was way too long... but i got the jist Oo and please stop thinking you're British slash cooler because you use realise, apologise etc.

and by jist i mean gist