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How Do You Identify?: Rainbow femme
Preferred Pronoun?: princess
Relationship Status: Married
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: United Kingdom
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I didn't have a privileged life. I'm privileged as I'm white, I'm pretty, I pass as middle-class, no one questions my intelligence (except older white heterosexual males), no one bars my way as I walk into the bathroom and most believe me to be better educated than I am.
I don't consider 'passing' as straight to be a privilege aside from the bathroom privilege it accords me. I definitely didn't consider appearing 'straight' to be a privilege when I was trying to get laid on the gay scene. Nor is being pretty much of a privilege when you're young, gay and fending off misogynistic male attention.
I didn't have a privileged life at all, but I accept that in many ways I have been very lucky.
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It is not worth an intelligent person's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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