On privilege
Sep. 15th, 2008 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annwfynI saw a really good article on privilege linked to from a community I'm on earlier, and thought it was worth sharing. It's here and it's a really nice and concise article explaining a load of stuff that I think I sometimes stumble over.
Basically, the gist is that you're all privileged. Yes. You.
For starters, you live in the western world. You wake up in the morning, and you know that when you clean your teeth, the water you are using isn't going to kill you. Unless you chose not to, you know that you can eat that day. And then we move on to the other privileges that all of us have at least some of - able bodied privilege, cis-gender privilege, white privilege, male privilege. It's an interesting read and I think well worth poking.
In other news, I'm getting vexed with myself over my sleeping patterns. Last night I couldn't get to sleep until 2.30 am, and then nearly died getting up at 8.30 am. Today is my day off, so I wound up going back to bed around 10 am and then just sleeping until gone noon, which I really don't like in myself.
I need to sort out my sleeping patterns. And I need to somehow do it now.
Basically, the gist is that you're all privileged. Yes. You.
For starters, you live in the western world. You wake up in the morning, and you know that when you clean your teeth, the water you are using isn't going to kill you. Unless you chose not to, you know that you can eat that day. And then we move on to the other privileges that all of us have at least some of - able bodied privilege, cis-gender privilege, white privilege, male privilege. It's an interesting read and I think well worth poking.
In other news, I'm getting vexed with myself over my sleeping patterns. Last night I couldn't get to sleep until 2.30 am, and then nearly died getting up at 8.30 am. Today is my day off, so I wound up going back to bed around 10 am and then just sleeping until gone noon, which I really don't like in myself.
I need to sort out my sleeping patterns. And I need to somehow do it now.
