These days we hear a lot about privilege — class privilege, white privilege, first-world privilege, male privilege — and, I’m sure, many more.
The idea is that people who have privilege don’t have problems that other people deal with every day. In fact, they don’t usually realize that they have this privilege and benefit from it.
I know that I am privileged in many ways. I have a house, a husband and work I can do. I have an Ivy League education and grew up in the suburbs, the child of loving parents who never divorced.
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