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In reply to the discussion: "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is" [View all]EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Instead, you focused on the first sentence and then ignored the rest of the piece, which clearly puts into context exactly what the author is trying to do, which bears no resemblance to your assumption of what it is.
It is very clear that "explain to straight white men how life works for them" does not mean explaining white men's lives to them in any individual sense but is an attempt to illustrate how their privilege works for them in the world vis-a-vis other people without using the word "privilege" - something that many of them clearly don't see. This isn't about straight white men's lives in a vacuum but how the externalized privilege that straight white men enjoy in this country compares with and often affects the lives of other people. This can ONLY be addressed within an external context, so discussing it and explaining to those who don't get it is absolutely necessary if someone is to understand how it works who hasn't figured it out by now.
But, thank you for explaining to me, a perfect stranger, why I should not attempt to explain white privilege to perfect strangers.