[governsleastgovernsbest]

Note that the author, Peggy McIntosh, is associate director of the Center for Research on Women at Hillary's alma mater, Wellesley College.

For doubters, I affirm that this is NOT a parody of white guilt. It was written by what passes for a serious scholar in the American academia of 2006.

[andyk]

They may say they will work to women's statues, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's.

Do you know what this sentence means?

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I encourage folks to click on the link and continue reading. It gets 'better.' The author is pretty much ashamed of being alive.

[nina0113]

She wrote it 16 years ago - I wonder if she's smartened up yet.

[Smartaleck]

I only ask that every woman remember, that almost all men were raised primarily by a women.

You want your "man" to be completely dependent on you, so too, will your son.

[rocksblues]

I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like to have white privilege.

I was taught to respect people unless they proved to be not deserving of that respect!

[Millee]

even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged.

I don't consider myself disadvantaged. I consider myself incredibly blessed to be born/raised in a country that grants so many rights/privileges to all people. I'm guessing I'd fail her class.

[Billthedrill]

This is also the basis for the "Whiteness" curricula that are currently staining academia.

Here's the deal - it's an invisible substance that is all around you everywhere - like ether in physics. Oh, ether is only imaginary? Good point...

[BadAndy]

Wow, this biatch not only drank the purple Kool aid, she has chosen to live in a vat of the stuff. An amazing glimpse into the thought processes of a loon.

[pipecorp]

i guess this means i should drop my disguise as a poor, short white guy scraping by, and return to my life of privilege and leisure while having my manslave lick my jackboots as my wenches serve my needs.

somebody tell this ignorant b@tch to grow up.

[Looking4Truth]

Hey Peggy McIntosh, STFU and get me a beer!

[muir_redwoods]

If this is serious and not a parody of stupid liberal rot, then this person is simply so self-obsessed that she stands no chance of being taken seriously by anyone with a brain.

She needs to be told to "get over yourself, the rest of us have learned to ignore you"

[pabianice]

Someone needs to hook up this whiney loser with the crazy NYT broad who's turned her house into a giant hippie dumpster...

[GOPJ]

3. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.

4. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.

Just why is it that black neighborhoods aren't "comfortable" for many blacks? Or, for that matter, many whites? When blacks get money, they move out of black neighborhoods. When whites get money they stay in white neighborhoods. That's a factor this woman isn't dealing with -- or seeing.

[GOPJ]

43. If I have low credibility as a leader I can be sure that my race is not the problem.

As a white person, there's no built-in excuse for failure...

[Chode]

i guess this genius would have b!tched about cave-mens privilege of killing the beast and fighting for the lives of the family/tribe instead of sitting home gathering and tending her young...

[Monkey King]

"I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like to have white privilege."

Yeah, well - *I* think that feminist fantasists are carefully taught to blame every inequity and iniquity on white, heterosexual, anglo-saxon, protestant males.

There, now my theories have just as much validation as hers. When do I get my check from the *whatever*-studies program?

Now a general rant about this mindset:

Seriously, how is this any different from the fundamentalists these people always complain about? (Christian fundamentalists, not Muslim fundamentalists- It would never do to complain about Muslims...because Mennonites are a damn sight more dangerous than Sunnis - because they drive slow, horse-drawn buggies. Or something). To wit; it only takes faith in what you believe to make it true -

"You're priviliged."

"No, I'm not."

"Yes, you are, you just can't see it."

"How do you know I can't see priviledge?"

"Because you don't admit you see that you're privileged."

"WTF?"

ad infinitum...

It's this bizarre Kafkaesque "thinking" that keeps these people in business. It would be funny if so much of our tax dollars didn't go to funding it.

[Savage Beast]

One wonders if Peggy includes among male priveleges their shorter lifespan; higher rate of suicide, alcoholism, violent death, and incarceration; and higher morbidity from almost every disease--in fact, the same symptoms found in any oppressed minority. Men are a minority, of course; one wonders if Peggy knows that.

[Fintan]

 

Osho is confused.

[Richard Kimball]

Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle. I was ready to give this a "college sophomore says something stupid" comment. Then I suspected it was an Onion article, but went to the Wellesley web site, and there it is. It's not even coherent writing, and this ditz is a PHD.

[TASMANIANRED]

Silly bitch.