It's your girl, I, D.B.

Back at it again with another episode of Selective Ignorance, the pod where we question everything, even the things we think we know.

Well, also talking about the selective outrage, because y'all got that shit, too.

Today, we are talking about the word that makes everybody tense up.

Privilege.

That's right, baby.

We talk about privilege.

Now, before you roll your eyes, stick with me here one little bit, okay?

When we hear privilege, we usually think of it like something that you kind of should be ashamed of.

But what if we look at it a little differently?

What if we admitted that every type of privilege

comes with pros and cons? And some of y'all out there are blessed in one area and struggling

in another. So think about it. Pretty privilege. Yeah. You might get the free drinks, the job

interviews, the good looking men, but how often do people underestimate you just because of how you look?

And we've talked about patriarchy, so I'm not going to do it. But pretty privilege also comes

with higher risks of being sexually assaulted. We don't talk about that enough, though, do we?

All right, let's get into then the socioeconomic privilege.

You got the money, you got the access, but it also means dealing with fake people,

pressure to stay successful, and sometimes the guilt for what you have.

Baby, how many of y'all made more money during the pandemic and feel bad for even sharing that?

What about white privilege? That's what we all know

about. And listen, we're not denying that it exists, but does the experience of that privilege

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