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You'll have to take your quibble over word choice up with someone other than me; I'm just using the word that feminism and critical theory have chosen for the c
by rosser 13y ago
You'll have to take your quibble over word choice up with someone other than me; I'm just using the word that feminism and critical theory have chosen for the concept in the way they use it, because language and convention.
Relative to the vast majority of people on the planet, however — probably even to the vast majority of people you come into contact with in daily life — even "merely" being the child of a dentist is most emphatically being privileged. If you go to university, knowing your education is paid for, and that you won't graduate facing the next couple decades of your life shackled to productive, gainful employment, because student loan debt is one that can't be discharged, then relative to nearly all of your classmates, you are incredibly privileged.
"Privilege", as the term is used in critical theory, isn't an absolute state; it's a relative one.
- omonra 13y agoSure - I wasn't taking it up with you, just voicing my thoughts :) On the topic at hand - again, while it's a matter of personal choice - I think that growing up in a two parent household with caring parents who provide for their children is normal. Just like it's normal to be able-bodied as opposed to having some kind of physical or mental deficiency. We don't label healthy people 'privileged' - even though they probably constitute a minority of the population. I guess the difference is whether something can be reasonably expected (desired) for most of the population within one generation - assuming one puts in the work. So while someone from the bottom of society (heck, any part of society) can't expect to become a billionaire - they can attain middle-class status.