Reply #70: Sorry for blowing it on your gender! [View All]

[intheflow]

:blush:

I've studied racism/white privilege issues for over a decade, and have a very strong theoretical knowledge. But inevitably I always astound and embarrass myself again when my own cultural assumptions pop out of my mouth one more time. I work at a black-owned business and it's really scary how often my white privilege comes to the fore. :( I'm thankful I'm at least a poor woman, at least that gives me a bit of a leg up/clue about discrimination and male privilege. Maybe by the time I die I'll get it down to only one overtly ignorant, audible white privilege remark a week, but being a white American, probably not.