I'm so much more aware of my gender and gender issues, it's not even funny how much the subtleties of racial/ethnic issues pass over my head.
Doh! I also wanted to say "me too" to this. Because the race thing, it's been bugging me for a really long time, but I haven't been able to articulate why until recently. And a large part of that was going to WisCon, discussing feminism with friends on LJ, talking about male privilege and etc. And then, I started substituting "white privilege" for "male privilege" and I realized a lot of the patterns that feminism talks about wrt how feminist discussions go and how many discussions are diverted to discuss maleness once again apply to race as well.
Um, this is not to say that I am Enlightened Person, because, wow, so am not! But that... it took me a long, long time to even start thinking about race, despite being troubled by it a lot.
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Doh! I also wanted to say "me too" to this. Because the race thing, it's been bugging me for a really long time, but I haven't been able to articulate why until recently. And a large part of that was going to WisCon, discussing feminism with friends on LJ, talking about male privilege and etc. And then, I started substituting "white privilege" for "male privilege" and I realized a lot of the patterns that feminism talks about wrt how feminist discussions go and how many discussions are diverted to discuss maleness once again apply to race as well.
Um, this is not to say that I am Enlightened Person, because, wow, so am not! But that... it took me a long, long time to even start thinking about race, despite being troubled by it a lot.