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"Yes, of course!
I’m a white middle aged man in Britain. Well educated and able bodied. I’ve got more privilege than I know what to do with! "
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By *ea monkeyMan
over a year ago
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"Yes, of course!
I’m a white middle aged man in Britain. Well educated and able bodied. I’ve got more privilege than I know what to do with!
complain about uppity people? seems to be a common use of it"
I’m off to write a letter to the Daily Mail |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Male privilege 
And Black privilege- people don’t sit next to us on public transport and we get escxrted around the shop by security  "
Wait is that a real thing? Am I not meant to sit next to them? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Pickle... It's too early for this.
Apparently pretty women have privilege just for existing... According to a post yesterday.
Not sure if I'm included in that these days. Probably too old now."
You are too old for that, Mimi. Lucky for you there’s plenty of cubs around  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Male privilege
And Black privilege- people don’t sit next to us on public transport and we get escxrted around the shop by security
Wait is that a real thing? Am I not meant to sit next to them? "
No. It’s a joke. |
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"Yes, of course!
I’m a white middle aged man in Britain. Well educated and able bodied. I’ve got more privilege than I know what to do with!
complain about uppity people? seems to be a common use of it
I’m off to write a letter to the Daily Mail"
BE SURE TO USE ALL CAPS |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes the standard tropes...
But I actually feel the male one, I can walk certain areas without worrying, I don't feel threatened.
Plus I think I'm reasonably good looking which means people aren't weirded out when I chat to them in bars etc. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"White, British passport, Educated, tall, good health, full head of hair. I wish I had the pretty privilege though  "
Your profile says 6’1 so are you actually 5’10 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Male privilege
And Black privilege- people don’t sit next to us on public transport and we get escxrted around the shop by security
Wait is that a real thing? Am I not meant to sit next to them?
No. It’s a joke. "
Wow, really showing my privilege there! That was a close one |
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"Male privilege
And Black privilege- people don’t sit next to us on public transport and we get escxrted around the shop by security "
And cross the road when they see you walking towards you. This is my pavement bitch  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Male privilege
And Black privilege- people don’t sit next to us on public transport and we get escxrted around the shop by security
Wait is that a real thing? Am I not meant to sit next to them?
No. It’s a joke.
Wow, really showing my privilege there! That was a close one "
People also cross the street and give us the entire pavement too.
I do feel like these privileges are declining with the rise of virtue signaling but I’ll manage |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Male privilege
And Black privilege- people don’t sit next to us on public transport and we get escxrted around the shop by security
And cross the road when they see you walking towards you. This is my pavement bitch "
Literally was just typing this. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Male privilege
And Black privilege- people don’t sit next to us on public transport and we get escxrted around the shop by security
Wait is that a real thing? Am I not meant to sit next to them?
No. It’s a joke.
Wow, really showing my privilege there! That was a close one
People also cross the street and give us the entire pavement too.
I do feel like these privileges are declining with the rise of virtue signaling but I’ll manage"
Give us? So we give black peoples the whole street now?
I knew this would happen |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Male privilege
And Black privilege- people don’t sit next to us on public transport and we get escxrted around the shop by security
Wait is that a real thing? Am I not meant to sit next to them?
No. It’s a joke.
Wow, really showing my privilege there! That was a close one
People also cross the street and give us the entire pavement too.
I do feel like these privileges are declining with the rise of virtue signaling but I’ll manage
Give us? So we give black peoples the whole street now?
I knew this would happen "
Enoch Powell was right wasn’t he. |
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I have disabled privileges. I get to tell people to feck off out of the 1 space on a bus. I can park for FREE in Manchester city centre allllllllll day (on the street) and I can go faster than the walking people, if the pavements aren't made from old industrial rubble.
Go me! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I have disabled privileges. I get to tell people to feck off out of the 1 space on a bus. I can park for FREE in Manchester city centre allllllllll day (on the street) and I can go faster than the walking people, if the pavements aren't made from old industrial rubble.
Go me!"
You get your own parking spaces!  |
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"I have disabled privileges. I get to tell people to feck off out of the 1 space on a bus. I can park for FREE in Manchester city centre allllllllll day (on the street) and I can go faster than the walking people, if the pavements aren't made from old industrial rubble.
Go me!
You get your own parking spaces! "
Yeah, but non disableds nick 'em when they're "only going to be quick" or need an emergency bunch of flowers to placate her indoors  |
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"I have disabled privileges. I get to tell people to feck off out of the 1 space on a bus. I can park for FREE in Manchester city centre allllllllll day (on the street) and I can go faster than the walking people, if the pavements aren't made from old industrial rubble.
Go me!
You get your own parking spaces!
Yeah, but non disableds nick 'em when they're "only going to be quick" or need an emergency bunch of flowers to placate her indoors "
You don't understand how hard their lives are how very dare you etc |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Imagine being so privileged you didn't even realise you were privileged!! Apparently.
Gbat "
What is it they say? Something something “equality to the privileged looks like oppression” |
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"Yes the standard tropes...
But I actually feel the male one, I can walk certain areas without worrying, I don't feel threatened.
Plus I think I'm reasonably good looking which means people aren't weirded out when I chat to them in bars etc."
That's an interesting one though. I as a woman don't feel safe but you more likely to be the victim of assault than i am. And as to your second point usually the level if attractiveness is inversely connected to how creepy you are perceived. |
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Oh. Loads. I'm pretty. I'm white. I'm female. I was born in a country that gives a lot of allowances others are denied. I have a mathy brain and certain things come very easily to me.
All of those also have their own downsides, some more than others, but I can still appreciate the privilege each one grants even if there are more privileged or better options I could have been born with  |
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As a child I was very underprivileged financially and materialisticly. But I was very privileged to be brought up by very wise and loving parents in a stable household. Love to me as a child was something felt unconditional and limitless. Sadly dad died when I was 16. It's a privilege that is of huge value to me in my success in life (which isn't just financial) and my out look. Its a privilege I don't apologise for one bit, but I do realise it as a privilege and that it's sadly not one everyone gets.
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"Yes, of course!
I’m a white middle aged man in Britain. Well educated and able bodied. I’ve got more privilege than I know what to do with!
complain about uppity people? seems to be a common use of it
I’m off to write a letter to the Daily Mail
BE SURE TO USE ALL CAPS"
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"As a child I was very underprivileged financially and materialisticly. But I was very privileged to be brought up by very wise and loving parents in a stable household. Love to me as a child was something felt unconditional and limitless. Sadly dad died when I was 16. It's a privilege that is of huge value to me in my success in life (which isn't just financial) and my out look. Its a privilege I don't apologise for one bit, but I do realise it as a privilege and that it's sadly not one everyone gets.
Mr"
I like that you know and appreciate this. Sorry your dad is no longer with us x |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago
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Of course I'm privileged. I grew up as a white male in a misogynist country that systematically oppressed the non- white majority of its population. Everything I have flows from that.
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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago
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"Of course I'm privileged. I grew up as a white male in a misogynist country that systematically oppressed the non- white majority of its population. Everything I have flows from that.
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Also, have you seen my legs? That's privilege.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Of course I'm privileged. I grew up as a white male in a misogynist country that systematically oppressed the non- white majority of its population. Everything I have flows from that.
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My parents were immigrants here. They definitely weren't systematically oppressed, they did quite well actually. They cracked on and didn't moan but worked integrated and built their own lives up.
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By *erces LetiferMan
over a year ago
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"Of course I'm privileged. I grew up as a white male in a misogynist country that systematically oppressed the non- white majority of its population. Everything I have flows from that.
My parents were immigrants here. They definitely weren't systematically oppressed, they did quite well actually. They cracked on and didn't moan but worked integrated and built their own lives up.
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Shhhhhh. Don't challenge the narrative. If you were to even hint or suggest that, actually, they live in one of the least misogynistic, least racist and least oppressive societies in human history, it's really upsetting for them - almost like they don't wanna check their own privileges or something, I dunno... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Of course I'm privileged. I grew up as a white male in a misogynist country that systematically oppressed the non- white majority of its population. Everything I have flows from that.
My parents were immigrants here. They definitely weren't systematically oppressed, they did quite well actually. They cracked on and didn't moan but worked integrated and built their own lives up.
Shhhhhh. Don't challenge the narrative. If you were to even hint or suggest that, actually, they live in one of the least misogynistic, least racist and least oppressive societies in human history, it's really upsetting for them - almost like they don't wanna check their own privileges or something, I dunno... "
The thread is light hearted. Keep it that way |
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"Of course I'm privileged. I grew up as a white male in a misogynist country that systematically oppressed the non- white majority of its population. Everything I have flows from that.
My parents were immigrants here. They definitely weren't systematically oppressed, they did quite well actually. They cracked on and didn't moan but worked integrated and built their own lives up.
Shhhhhh. Don't challenge the narrative. If you were to even hint or suggest that, actually, they live in one of the least misogynistic, least racist and least oppressive societies in human history, it's really upsetting for them - almost like they don't wanna check their own privileges or something, I dunno...
The thread is light hearted. Keep it that way "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Of course I'm privileged. I grew up as a white male in a misogynist country that systematically oppressed the non- white majority of its population. Everything I have flows from that.
My parents were immigrants here. They definitely weren't systematically oppressed, they did quite well actually. They cracked on and didn't moan but worked integrated and built their own lives up.
Shhhhhh. Don't challenge the narrative. If you were to even hint or suggest that, actually, they live in one of the least misogynistic, least racist and least oppressive societies in human history, it's really upsetting for them - almost like they don't wanna check their own privileges or something, I dunno... "
Oh, yeah...no...I meant my parents chose to come here because it's so awful and they were downtrodden and didn't have the chances everyone else had because of endemic systematic isms of all kinds just grinding them down.
They didn't get jobs, or go on to open their own business, no banks helped them, no neighbours were good to them, they didn't make lots of friends here or anything. Truly awful for them.
It was so bad, that lots of their countrymen didn't come too, and none off them found happiness and success here either. Tragic story really. |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago
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"Of course I'm privileged. I grew up as a white male in a misogynist country that systematically oppressed the non- white majority of its population. Everything I have flows from that.
My parents were immigrants here. They definitely weren't systematically oppressed, they did quite well actually. They cracked on and didn't moan but worked integrated and built their own lives up.
Shhhhhh. Don't challenge the narrative. If you were to even hint or suggest that, actually, they live in one of the least misogynistic, least racist and least oppressive societies in human history, it's really upsetting for them - almost like they don't wanna check their own privileges or something, I dunno...
Oh, yeah...no...I meant my parents chose to come here because it's so awful and they were downtrodden and didn't have the chances everyone else had because of endemic systematic isms of all kinds just grinding them down.
They didn't get jobs, or go on to open their own business, no banks helped them, no neighbours were good to them, they didn't make lots of friends here or anything. Truly awful for them.
It was so bad, that lots of their countrymen didn't come too, and none off them found happiness and success here either. Tragic story really. "
Lol. I wasn't commenting on the UK.
I grew up in Apartheid South Africa, where pretty much everything was arranged to my benefit. |
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"Of course I'm privileged. I grew up as a white male in a misogynist country that systematically oppressed the non- white majority of its population. Everything I have flows from that.
My parents were immigrants here. They definitely weren't systematically oppressed, they did quite well actually. They cracked on and didn't moan but worked integrated and built their own lives up.
Shhhhhh. Don't challenge the narrative. If you were to even hint or suggest that, actually, they live in one of the least misogynistic, least racist and least oppressive societies in human history, it's really upsetting for them - almost like they don't wanna check their own privileges or something, I dunno...
Oh, yeah...no...I meant my parents chose to come here because it's so awful and they were downtrodden and didn't have the chances everyone else had because of endemic systematic isms of all kinds just grinding them down.
They didn't get jobs, or go on to open their own business, no banks helped them, no neighbours were good to them, they didn't make lots of friends here or anything. Truly awful for them.
It was so bad, that lots of their countrymen didn't come too, and none off them found happiness and success here either. Tragic story really.
Lol. I wasn't commenting on the UK.
I grew up in Apartheid South Africa, where pretty much everything was arranged to my benefit. "
Ah, I'll bow to your knowledge of s.a. I've never lived there or even been  |
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By *erces LetiferMan
over a year ago
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"Lol. I wasn't commenting on the UK.
I grew up in Apartheid South Africa, where pretty much everything was arranged to my benefit. "
Oh, damn. Well don't I look silly, now? 
What is it they say about assumptions, again? |
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"Male privilege
And Black privilege- people don’t sit next to us on public transport and we get escxrted around the shop by security
And cross the road when they see you walking towards you. This is my pavement bitch "
I cross the road when I see most lone men coming , depending on the time of day and my immediate reaction to what I glean in those few seconds.
It's not exclusively your preserve.
It's not even male privilege regardless of colour or creed because I will sometimes cross if there is a group of women ; again time and behaviour dependent.
It's too easy to interpret the actions of others to suit your own narrative.
To be fair.... I've got out of the way of dogs in the past, doesn't even have to be a big one.
Just one of the many things people have to navigate in their daily routines. |
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"Pickle... It's too early for this.
Apparently pretty women have privilege just for existing... According to a post yesterday.
Not sure if I'm included in that these days. Probably too old now.
You are too old for that, Mimi. Lucky for you there’s plenty of cubs around "
Silver linings and all that! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Male privilege
And Black privilege- people don’t sit next to us on public transport and we get escxrted around the shop by security
And cross the road when they see you walking towards you. This is my pavement bitch
I cross the road when I see most lone men coming , depending on the time of day and my immediate reaction to what I glean in those few seconds.
It's not exclusively your preserve.
It's not even male privilege regardless of colour or creed because I will sometimes cross if there is a group of women ; again time and behaviour dependent.
It's too easy to interpret the actions of others to suit your own narrative.
To be fair.... I've got out of the way of dogs in the past, doesn't even have to be a big one.
Just one of the many things people have to navigate in their daily routines. "
lmao we get it you don’t see colour but this was a joke |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
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"White, British passport, Educated, tall, good health, full head of hair. I wish I had the pretty privilege though
Your profile says 6’1 so are you actually 5’10"
Easy tiger , don’t go fobbing any pics!
No…. 6’2 in AF1’s.
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By *AYENCouple
over a year ago
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I think all who live in Britain are privileged to a certain degree - we personally aren't as privileged as the woman I saw on YouTube yesterday who was moaning that the £2000 benefits she receives every month aren't enough, because we have to work for our money. Some always play the victim, some don't realise how lucky they are. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"White, British passport, Educated, tall, good health, full head of hair. I wish I had the pretty privilege though
Your profile says 6’1 so are you actually 5’10
Easy tiger , don’t go fobbing any pics!
No…. 6’2 in AF1’s.
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Very cheeky to add in the AF1 height but I respect it |
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By *G LanaTV/TS
over a year ago
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Yes I have some privileges as someone who is white, middle classed etc. What has suprised me though is how quickly people dropped into treating me as a woman and adjusting these to match. For example I didn't expect the door opening thing or the loss of personal space and the assumption of less competence so quickly. |
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"Male privilege
And Black privilege- people don’t sit next to us on public transport and we get escxrted around the shop by security
And cross the road when they see you walking towards you. This is my pavement bitch
I cross the road when I see most lone men coming , depending on the time of day and my immediate reaction to what I glean in those few seconds.
It's not exclusively your preserve.
It's not even male privilege regardless of colour or creed because I will sometimes cross if there is a group of women ; again time and behaviour dependent.
It's too easy to interpret the actions of others to suit your own narrative.
To be fair.... I've got out of the way of dogs in the past, doesn't even have to be a big one.
Just one of the many things people have to navigate in their daily routines. lmao we get it you don’t see colour but this was a joke "
I do see colour. Don't put words in my mouth |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Male privilege
And Black privilege- people don’t sit next to us on public transport and we get escxrted around the shop by security
And cross the road when they see you walking towards you. This is my pavement bitch
I cross the road when I see most lone men coming , depending on the time of day and my immediate reaction to what I glean in those few seconds.
It's not exclusively your preserve.
It's not even male privilege regardless of colour or creed because I will sometimes cross if there is a group of women ; again time and behaviour dependent.
It's too easy to interpret the actions of others to suit your own narrative.
To be fair.... I've got out of the way of dogs in the past, doesn't even have to be a big one.
Just one of the many things people have to navigate in their daily routines. lmao we get it you don’t see colour but this was a joke
I do see colour. Don't put words in my mouth"
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I like chick ... and so it became."
But I’d rather you just didn’t interact with me or my stuff. You of course can. Just like I *can* call you man. But I’d rather you didn’t x
Appreciate you, Granny. |
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"I like chick ... and so it became.
But I’d rather you just didn’t interact with me or my stuff. You of course can. Just like I *can* call you man. But I’d rather you didn’t x
Appreciate you, Granny. "
I didn't Pickle. You interacted with me.
Request granted.
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"Yes I have some privileges as someone who is white, middle classed etc. What has suprised me though is how quickly people dropped into treating me as a woman and adjusting these to match. For example I didn't expect the door opening thing or the loss of personal space and the assumption of less competence so quickly."
The latter part of your post - it's interesting, isn't it?! |
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"I like chick ... and so it became.
But I’d rather you just didn’t interact with me or my stuff. You of course can. Just like I *can* call you man. But I’d rather you didn’t x
Appreciate you, Granny. "
Whats all this with the prejudice
Lighten up everyone its christmas |
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"I like chick ... and so it became.
But I’d rather you just didn’t interact with me or my stuff. You of course can. Just like I *can* call you man. But I’d rather you didn’t x
Appreciate you, Granny.
Whats all this with the prejudice
Lighten up everyone its christmas "
What's with all the drama today |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
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I sit next to black men on buses.
I do enough of them to be thankful for any seat, regardless.
That's buses, not black men.
I'm the one no one wants to sit next to on the bus.
I've not worked out why yet.
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