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I had a hard time grasping it until I read a good reframe of privilege. White privilege isn’t ‘bonus points’, it’s not additive. It’s that the rules of the game, as we are sold it, actually apply and aren’t changed. They don’t seemingly randomly become extra rules to ensure you don’t get any points or lose the points you gain. Privilege is a failure to subtract. Anyone without ‘white privilege’ (or ‘privilege’ of any kind) is constantly fighting against increasingly absurd restrictions and subtractions to their ability to function. Race is one set of ‘yeah, but not for X’ additional ‘rules of functioning’ and gender is another. 

It’s animal farm’s classic “all animals are equal but some are more equal than others”. We set the starting line in on place then say anyone who isn’t white has to take a step back. Anyone who isn’t male has to take a step back. Anyone who isn’t rich has to take two steps back. Then we act all shocked when some rich white dude wins the race. 

White privilege is to misogyny what male privilege is to racism. White privilege AND male privilege exist. Racism AND misogyny exist.

white privilege exists AND misogyny exists and white women experience both of these at the same time. Like neither one cancels the other out. Why is this so difficult for people to understand