Flip the Expectations
I left off writing last with an armful of heavy questions that came out of my year-long journey to uncovering my ugly privilege. By living here away from my home, the context that I had accepted as "normal", I'm beginning to see that first off, there are many many "normals" just as there are many many people and that in reality, my "normal" is not really very normal at all. Not only have I inherited the wealth and social standing of my parents but the race of the privileged majority of my nation. These two great pillars to my privilege stand out to me, but also with them are my conventional religion, my education, my sexual orientation, and my physical ability. In all ways but my gender and leanings to pacifism, my "normal" is preferred by the greater part of society. The way ahead of me is already paved and swept by current laws, history, and established attitudes, so that I walk boldly ahead fearing little. So now what do I do? I cannot i...