Aug 22, 2012
Privilege Lists
"Don’t quibble with privilege lists. If you read them from a standpoint of wanting to deny your privilege, you’ll come out having successfully denied it but learning nothing. Read sympathetically and think about it. If there’s something that seems like a privilege not all cis people have, try to consider about why someone would put it on the list, what larger scale patterns I might be to pointing to, rather than just rejecting it whole cloth.
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If cis men get 10 privilege points, cis women 5 and trans men 5, trans women get 0)."
(Quote by wordpress user Cedar in reply to a comment to the cis-privilege checklist)