Posts tagged “privilege”

Being gay means even mundane purchases like buying beer require researching whether the company is funding anti-gay causes. Straight people just don't have to think about this stuff.

I saw a young, privileged couple on the tube this morning and immediately loathed them. Not for their wealth, but for their effortless, inherited confidence: those intangible "soft skills" that propel mediocre people past better-qualified ones. I hate them most because I worry I might be one of them.