White Female Privilege

[ainnochaim]

Only one form of privilege i believe in: wealth.

[mrsynister]

He just peered into my soul.
jeez!
Gonna give me nightmares now.

[MajaZaguan]

Ah, yes, the Olympics of suffering, where nobody wins.

[thePribs]

I'm from India, i wear two coats and loose pants over whatever i am wearing just to go to the store a few metres away from my home. That look was very familiar 😂

[Potatomuffin]

Women in general in India have the issue. For a work trip I had a work sponsored taxi service that came to pick me up from the airport even at late hours and it wasn't different. However for my female co-workers you had to check you were female so that they would assign another person in the taxi. When asked why my manager responded "to supervise the driver and make sure they don't do anything".

[Jimothythend]

He ain't kidding. The way they treat women in India is horrendous. I dated a woman from India and she told me that when she was 14 she would get fondled by men walking to and from school every day. That was just the beginning and she experienced much worse things before leaving the country.

[MayTheOddsBeInYourFavor]

Funny but let’s not get too serious in comparing two separate situations.

“You know how 1st world feminists get told that they don't need feminism? They're told that they should be glad they're not "really oppressed" like the women in 3rd world countries. That things could always be worse.


You know what my mother tells me?


She says I don't need feminism because I should be glad l'm born in an urban city of Pakistan. She says, at least I wasn't born in a rural area where girls are married off to men twice their age. That things could always be worse.

And our house maid, Shabana, who was married to her uncle at 15 and, at 18, has 2 children, she doesn't even know what feminism is. She was told by her father that she should be glad her husband doesn't beat her and hasn't thrown tehzaab (acid at her. That things could always be worse.

Am I the only one seeing a very disturbing pattern here?”

This is a quote I found somewhere while reading online and it’s always stuck with me.

Just because one group has it better than another…doesn’t mean that one set of problems is negligible. It’s accepting problematic situations that allow it to backslide into worse problematic situations

Edit: I’m not even going to acknowledge the negative comments anymore cause they’re obviously looking for SOMEONE’S attention. They’re not getting any more of mine.

I didn’t write this for them…I wrote it for women who are told their problems aren’t that bad and to be grateful for living in the West. Recent years have made it clearer than ever to not get complacent with our rights as women. Just because it’s not as bad as somewhere else… does not mean we accept the bare minimum. We deserve equality, justice, freedom of choice and safety from harm. Completely and totally. And we shouldn’t stop fighting till we achieve that!

[swicheroo]

The India Stare was annoying--even as a man--but my wife literally got physically assaulted several times by teenage males at certain ruins. And in one moment during a wedding procession, a well-meaning gentleman told me that she was dancing too hard and was asking for 'trouble.'

[shka]

Street harassment was when a bike with 3 boys follows your school bus and waits till you and a couple other girls get off at the bus stop and walk towards the road leading to your house and the same bike running past you with great speed and barely missing you by a few cm....i had that experience once ..if I had stumbled even a little then I would have been greatly injured.

[tientruong]

Just because there's worse levels of harassment, doesn't mean the less serious ones aren't valid...

[grigotts]

As an Indian girl I can confirm feel entitled to do this to girls.

[Nstone]

Only a man would see two types of harassment and pit them against each other like competition.

[tammy]

So true! I lived in India for 10 months and walking down the street was so stressful because they just stare at you or whistle

[shinlua]

Yeah you are right! In order to tell people how bad it is for women in india you have to tear down the struggle of other women.

[Trials_By_Errors]

Stalking and Harrasment is Generalised by Bollywood and other film industries As Romantic Activities. This is going to happen.

[Bold_Beginnings]

I was 5 months pregnant and walking with my husband out of an airport in India and was VERY uncomfortable with the amount of stares at me just like that. My husband needed to go back inside and get something but I didn’t want to experience the stares so I replied, “I’ll just hide behind this pole until you come back.” And that’s what I did.

[sieben]

bit strange to compare harassment, just because it’s different/worse in india does not mean it isn’t bad in america. the only one with privilege here is the male comedian thinking he can comment on the harassment women face

[mayurakshidas]

As an Indian living in India, this guy really enacted accurately how men here stare😂😂

[a.r.]

I know it's a joke, but it's not necessarily privilege. It could be the worst experience they've had that related to the movement. I myself have gone through some pretty horrible situations but I dont like to advertise it as much as others. At the end of the day it's not good to compare your situation to someone else's, it can cause a "well they have it worse" mentality and the problem won't be dealt with ( "it's going to happen anyways so I can't change it").

[kiracarver]

Eh. This is pretty much implying women in the US are privileged because on average the sexual crimes committed against us aren't as horrific as the average crimes committed against women in India. I believe wholeheartedly that i, as a white woman, have privilege. But not getting horrifcally sexually assaulted or mutilated is not one of them. That's my right, as a human being, as it should be for everyone else. I don't deny Indian women their experiences. Im just saying it's not a privilege, to be less harrassed. That's just the bare minimum.