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And I'm still recovering from everything he did to me all those years.

And it's been so hard for me to talk about.

Hello and welcome to season 8 episode 194 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals the worst monsters are real.

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Privilege. What a word. It seems to be a very popular word these days.

But despite its overuse and abuse in the political sphere, the word itself does have some meaning. To be a privileged person, you have an advantage over others, whether you were born with it or it was handed to you.

It kind of implies that you didn't necessarily earn this advantage. For example, someone whose parents pay for their expensive college education is privileged.

Or someone who inherits quite a lot of money and can buy a new house without having to even think about it. Let alone save for a down payment. That's a privileged person.

There's a lot of privileged people in academia these days telling others who've worked hard their whole lives to make a couple bucks that they're the ones that are privileged instead.

And who hasn't heard of the term Karen by now?

The privileged white woman throwing a fit in the park or at the mall because someone else isn't doing what she wants them to.

The term privileged is a close neighbor to the word spoiled, but it's a little different. When we think of spoiled, we tend to think of bratty little children.

But have you ever met a spoiled adult? It's always about them. And because they expect things to come easy for them, it's no tantrum when it doesn't.

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