History of Feminism

The black person or female with three times your income are richer than you despite their color or sex, not because of it. There is no advantage they have over you because of their sex or color. Their sex and color limited their opportunities from the day they were born. And they got rich despite that. Your race and sex did not limit you in any way. However, assuming you were born poor, your poverty definitely limited you. And despite being born white and male, you stayed poor, as poor people tend to do.

I agree that class is much more determinative of your station in life than race or sex. But within each class, the white males have more privileges than the others.

And your privileges over your fellow members of the bottom 20% who happen to be female or black are not "insignificant."

As I previously told you, bigotry adds to the burden of the poor who do not happen to be white and male.

My mom was a janitor, like you. But because she was a woman, she was afraid to take the late night jobs cleaning offices because she was afraid she'd get jumped on her way home (as a poor woman, she had no car). So, she had to take the lower paying, but day-time job of motel maid. My dad was a construction worker. He did not worry about people jumping him at night. And even though both of my parents worked bone-breaking jobs, my mom came home to be a maid to a construction worker. If us kids looked tattered, people would look askance at her, not my dad. We were her responsibility according to societal mores. My mom and my dad were poor, but my mom was way more oppressed in every sense of the word. Her oppression continued even at home. She had no respite. He was the king of the castle, as humble as it was. She was his servant. She cooked, she cleaned, she took care of us kids AND she worked full time. Things have not changed a whole hell of a lot as far as I can tell.

I know the indignities of poverty. But I also know how sexism heaps insult upon injury. As bad as your lot may be, it would be much worse if you were black or female. To refuse to acknowledge that because "80% of the country is richer than you" makes no logical sense.