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[ SECRET POST #3736 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3736 ⌋

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[Star Trek: AOS (Reboot)]

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[Jake Lloyd, Star Wars]

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(A Little Princess, the 1995 Alfonso Cuarón version)

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[Detective Constable Katie Harford (played by Georgina Campbell) on Broadchurch (season 3)]

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[Naruto, KakaSasu]

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[The Nosleep Podcast]

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In what ways have you won the social/economic/privilege lottery?

And in what ways have you totally lost it?

Thinking of it as "winning the lottery" is not productive / useful imo

Anyway, regardless, I am super privileged

If we're going to be pedantic, "win the ___ lotto" is a turn of phrase meaning some people got luckier than others in the realm of ____.

Nobody is thinking of it as winning the literal Mega Millions.

I'm probably just being overpedantic

I was born as a white woman in a country where women are treated as people. That's a massive jackpot right there.

I look at my skin and it's so fucking weird that a genetic mutation that lead to pale skin thousands of years ago somehow translates to being "better". I mean, I get it, racism is the result of oppressive politics and power struggle, but we the people are just so fucking strange about the stuff we decide to be snooty about.

It's not strange. Colorism is common to many cultures predating contact with the people who we currently consider "white".

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Race is proooooobably mostly a visual symbol for ethno-social-political-class divisions

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I am white and reasonably intelligent/educated.

However I am also poor, queer, and a woman, and I have physical and mental issues.

Could be worse?

I'm born in Norway, I'm in Higher Education* and am white, only one missing is man and I would have pretty much hit the jackpot.

I grew up with a mentally unstable mother resulting in me ending up in foster care so that wasn't fun, oh and it is the not straight thing, but that isn't a huge issue tbh.

All in all I am very grateful that I live where I live and look the way I do.

*got like 50.000$ in student loans thanks to that one, but in a year I will have my MA degree so worth it.

I'm white, American, educated, and come from a family that could consistently provide for my needs. So, I'm a lucky bastard. I'm also a gay lady who is not ablebodied so ya know. Ya take the good and the bad.

Edited 2017-03-27 23:31 (UTC)

I'm a white cis girl whose mother has connections to all the important and interesting people in the city (and beyond the city) gratis some old money heritage and social know-how. We lost the money part a while back, though.

I'm physically able and in okay shape, but my brain isn't as cooperative as my body. It's part mental illness (anxiety and depression dating back to childhood) and part hormones misbehaving, which birth control only partly addresses.

I got a college education and graduated with a very small amount of debt, though I didn't get a degree in a career-driven field so my wages are paltry and I live with my mom rent-free. I work part-time for the city government and finding it difficult to move up.

I'm not oppressed and dehumanized every day for having a uterus--I have affordable birth control gratis Planned Parenthood--but my state's governor has something against reproductive health so we're fighting for that particular right as I type.

I'm very pretty, which isn't quite a privilege in the way that, say, whiteness or able-bodiedness is, but it's an advantage in some ways.

I'm bi, which in my community is a nonissue.

My financial situation is such that I can pay my bills, buy some nice things for myself, and go out for coffee with friends to bitch about our predicaments--though, like I said, I live rent-free.

It could definitely be worse.

I'm able bodied, educated, cis, living in the US, and (lower) middle class.

I'm mentally ill, gay, female, not white, and an abuse survivor.

So like, mixed bag, like most people I imagine

Won:I'm white enough and had the opportunity to study.

Lost: I'm the daughter of immigrants, i'm fat and mentally ill. Also it seems I might not be capable of holding a job.

Edited 2017-03-27 23:15 (UTC)

I was born to older parents who were extremely financially stable. I've gotten to travel all over the world, and I have no student debt, even after grad school. They were good parents who supported me, told me to chase my dreams, and have never ever pressured me for grandkids even though I'm in my thirties.

On the other hand, female. I was strongly pushed out of math, science, and tech fields even though I have a lot of talent in each, and took a little too well to lady socialization about not being aggressive to do anything about it. I guess finance is math-y, but not in any way I get excited about...

I'm white, cis, intelligent, straight and relatively physically healthy.
I'm female, mentally ill and really ugly. and poor.

I was listening to a piece about the eugenics movement in the US and how they used to send any "undesirables" to the sanitarium, and one of the most often sent cases were "epileptics" (though often unproven, it was an easy thing to say someone was to get them sent away. that and "feebleminded"). And I just got to thinking, I am so damn lucky to have been born in the time and place where something like epilepsy was not an automatic trip to the asylum and treated with shock therapy or forced sterilization or anything along those lines. I didn't have a great time with the seizures, but at least I was treated medically and able to go to school and live my life.

I am also white, grew up with both my parents and extended family. While we were poor, I never went hungry and always had a roof over my head and clothes on my back.

I suppose the "lost it" part would be the medical conditions, physical and mental disabilities, and being queer and poor.

I'm white.

And I'm female, queer, disabled, and poor.

But being white is the ultimate privilege. The things I lose in other categories matter a lot less because I'm white.

Well, let's see. I'm a US citizen with a college degree. I have a good job with great benefits that pays reasonably well. My parents are wonderful people who worked hard to provide for my sisters and me.

I also grew up poor, so it pisses me off when people say that "the poors" take advantage of the system. I grew up knowing people who had to choose between which utilities to pay, were ashamed to be on food stamps, and hoarded every single bit of extra cash they could get. I'm also of Mexican descent and, while I never heard any "go back to Mexico" comments growing up, it seems that I'm now making up for lost time. The fun ones are the people who tell me to learn English when I'm fluent in the language and speak it better than they do.

Won: Born in 'Murica, I guess.

Lost: Raised by a physically, psychologically, verbally, and emotionally abusive narcissist. If you can call that raising. I'll spend the rest of my life trying to catch up with my peers.

Won: Intelligent, artistic, college-educated, youthful appearance (am in mid-20's, can pass as 15)

Lost: Female, white-passing Hispanic, lower-middle class, clinical depression and some form of anxiety, poor health/body condition, no job prospects, stuck in very small town with no foreseeable exit

I'm also ace but whether that's a win or a loss depends on who's judging. :B

Hmm let's see.

I'm....uh white I guess.

I'm also autistic OCD, ADHD and bipolar, biologically female, bi/queer, and minorly physically disabled (hypothyroid technically counts as disability. Requires you to be highly dependent on meds.).

I guess race is the only thing I can really say I'm privileged in. But it's also kind of a huge factor in a lot of ways.

Won: white, cishet, upper middle class; parents could afford to pay up front for school and to hire daily caregivers in my mom's old age.

Lost: can't think of anything. Being raised by a helicopter mom doesn't count; my fuckups all belong to me.

Privileged: I'm white, and though I never completed college, I have a larger-than-average vocabulary. I'm living rent-free, and my dad is going to help me pay off my student loans. Also, I have a union job which, though it doesn't pay that much, has excellent benefits.

Not so much: I'm genderfluid, bisexual, and atheist. All of these, however, are things I can conceal (and do, under most circumstances.) My bipolar disorder and anxiety under enough control that I don't seem "crazy." I have a chronic pain condition, but thanks to the aforementioned good benefits, that's mostly under control now.

I cannot, however, conceal the facts that I am female (biologically and socially, even if I don't always feel that way inside), fat, over 40, and unattractive.

Cishet white male.

I can't think of anything that would count as a loss, besides the disadvantages that come with the cishet white maleness.

White cis female living in a western nation, on a disability pension, living in public housing, have a computer and an internet connection, can afford to put away money for an overseas trip.

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