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I will go openly on record saying that being a straight white male guarantees NOTHING. Like I said I've had an extremely difficult life. Nothing about it has been easy or "on the lowest difficulty setting" (ridiculously stupid since like I said not all males play WoW, but I digress). I work 36 hours a week (in an economy where it is proving very difficult to get a second job and anything where I'd make real money requires experience I can't have without a degree or years or other experience) in a minimum wage job that tries its hardest to screw me out of as much of my check as possible. I'm paying off school bills and loans, for a car payment, rent, and for food which leaves me with little money for anything else. I have had nothing handed to me, and unless a suitcase full of money falls out of the sky I never will. Ya, I'm not a minority gay female and I am sure its harder that way (no sarcasm, that is just a whole giant red prejudice bullseye), but automatically assuming that all white straight males have it easy is sexist, racism, and I dunno the term but....preference-ist?
I did actually read the article. And some of the comments. A lot of it is generalizing. He openly says that he doesn't want straight while males defending themselves and that we all have it easy and privileged so we shouldn't complain, but that also assumes all people are the same in a certain category. Not all African-American people have the same background and life experience, not all women have the same background or life experience, and so on and so forth. But he generalizes. Its offensive to me because while perhaps he is privileged and feels guilt over it, but he assumes all straight white men are like him.
Yes, I like looking at good looking women myself, but the difference is that I can get in trouble merely for looking. Its considered piggish or inappropriate, that we should have more 'class' than that.And I don't care what women do with their lives or bodies. I don't always agree with the decisions, but I don't hinder them because its their life not mine. I don't vote unless I find a candidate (in any election) who embodies what I think is right so I obviously haven't voted in awhile. But I still don't drool over women publicly because yeah, I think its a tad offensive to do so. Ogling gets men in trouble, wish that one went both ways.
You ignored all of the things I said in my previous post that pertained to my life experience and why I found that article offensive, instead just trying to continue to say that straight white men have it easy. No, we do not all have it easy. My parents didn't have much to give me and I don't have much, I'm just trying to survive. In fact when applying for college I can't get much help financially because I'm white, male, and only of average GPA. Life will be a struggle for me for a long time, possibly always. But until this discussion I have taken it with that grain of salt I mentioned before because I try to just be a good person to everyone I know and to just live, but apparently that's not enough. I also have to feel guilty for my skin, my sex, and my preferences. So I guess I'm doing it wrong.
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