I also think it’s worthwhile to note that it’s perfectly fine to use personal experience to elucidate something that can be very abstract, such as privilege. It becomes problematic, however, when we cross the line from using an individual experience to ground the abstract in the real to assuming a system of privilege is about us personally. It isn’t. Woman A or Man B behaved X way in situation Y. Let’s take that individual situation and deconstruct how a particular system of privilege may or may not have affected their behavioral choices without initially attacking either side. This approach becomes increasingly difficult the more egregious we perceive the individual situation, but the resulting dialogue can be truly transformative.
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