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"Ha! Stupid feminists,” my friend Hunter spat out as we walked past a group of girls from our grade who had been holding up bright colored poster boards that had been bent from constantly waving around in the quad at lunch. Girls.. I mean really, what is their issue with men, it's not like anyone is telling them they cannot run for president, it almost seems as if it is their own laziness that is preventing them from getting ahead.. Or at least that is what I thought about feminism and many other underprivileged groups.
I believe the notion that you will only see privilege when you are outside of it is the best way to put where my understand of privilege began. Growing up as a white male in an American society I have never really seen any form

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