upper class white chick privilege

i'm an upper class white chick. i've worked hard to get from my poverty riddled childhood to where i am. some of it is fluke. right place right choices. most of it's been keeping my wits about me, planning for the future, chasing the goals.

i'm one of the lucky ones. had access to an education, was genetically blessed with smarts.

for all appearance i'm living the life. i'm everything socially acceptable in the world. slim, pretty, nice car, nice house, money to spare. and yet when it comes to sexism i am middle rung on the ladder. above me on the ladder sit straight white men, gay white men, straight coloured men, gay coloured men. straight white men of course rule the world and get pretty much everything they want when it comes to sex. gay men don't have as much respect or power but they still get more than white females, if it wasn't for gay men we'd never see nude men.

men in my world see no inequality compared to them and me. even though they get paid more and have better superannuation. even though they have strip clubs where the girls go all the way nude while the best i get is skimpy jocks for $10 extra entry fee. they get to watch movies and shows where the slim pretty women are often nude to some degree while the men i see are dressed, and so fat and ugly you want them to stay dressed (picture the full frontal nudity in the latest Denzel movie while he, over weight and middle aged, hides behind a bed sheet - see even there a black man is getting more than me .. because he's a straight high paid male). i get to sit there watching these nude women, watching the men be aroused and stimulated, while i feel uncomfortable and resentful.

even with all my 'supposed' privilege i still don't get full frontal male nudity and in all my years of living things are getting worse in that regard, not better. straight men get to enjoy the naked beauty of females and get to add all their privileged bullshit excuses about why they get that and i (we women) don't. men have higher libidos, sex sells and men are more visually aroused. no! sex doesn't sell. only the sale of women does. sex sells because men get paid more and men get what they want! it's all bullshit excuses designed to keep me and others in our place.

so image then if you're a female of colour, some other race aside from white. you get even less privilege, even less rights. i feel bad for women coz if i'm as good as it gets for us women and i still have little rights compared to men then how the hell are my sisters meant to rise up and prosper?

black bitch ho

in my country aboriginals aren't treated as well as white folk. their health is pore. their education drop out rate is high. many live in poverty. they die much younger than white folk. they're accused of being shop lifters, of abusing their women, of being alcoholic dole bludgers scabbing off the system, of urinating in public (dumb since that also describes many white folk).

i can't say for sure what is going wrong but i've wondered what can we do to make their world a better place? how can we actually make a difference?

i imagine it's much the same with people of colour in america struggling to be equal with white folk and yet...

if our aboriginal brothers and sisters began to make it up the economic chain towards a better life only to disrespect their women folk i'd be outraged. and this is what we see happening with african americans within the american music and media scene all the time!

video after video made by black american males and females featuring their women in disrespectful sexual objectification and referring to them as bitches and hos. what the!!!!! how is this ok?

i remember oprah talking about the things that go on in the african american music world, saying pretty much that it is what it is, can't fight the system. left me speechless really because a lady in her position could make a difference had she gone against whomever she wouldn't go against, when making her statement.

why fight so hard for your freedom and liberties just to take away those liberties from your women?

lupe says it well in his song.

and this lady sums it up perfectly