#cishet privilege

Christianity is the biggest religion in the world

Despite the law of separating church from state many countries like America still base their laws around religion

The hate against Christians isn’t as widespread as the hate against the lgbtq+ community, Muslims, poc, disabled people and more minorities

Most people that are Christian (this is just an observation I’m not saying that everybody is this person) are: white, upper middle class, cisgender, heterosexual (or not lgbt in anyway) and able bodied

The PRIVILEGE that most Christians get is outstanding- stop saying you are oppressed

Here are some examples of actual oppression, I’ll be using being lgbtq+ and being disabled as an example because that’s the oppression I fight daily. If you have different types of oppression than me- feel free to express your experiences!

I can get killed in over 72 countries for being lgbtq+

People make fun of my disablity for no reason

The slur “retard” is one of the most normalised slurs and not many people talk about the fact that most people use it especially in a school setting with out consequences

My existence it constantly debated

I can’t have a day on the internet without being called “fag” “faggot” “tranny” or “retard”

I have to hide who I am from my family out of fear that I will be kicked out of my own home

I have to get screamed at everyday because of how uneducated my family are on my disablity

People think it’s okay to ask me about my personal life for shit like “finding out about my communtiy” like that can be okay but the questions are uncomfortable and the people asking them never listen when you say you are uncomfortable

I get bullied at school for being lgbtq+ and the school does nothing

I am meant to get extra help because of my disability in school- my school made amazing promises and never did shit. I’m at the end of my secondary school days and my school still hasn’t helped me one bit

Making fun of disabled people is way to normalised

I’m scared to be my self in certain places because I fear I will get hate crimed

I have no faith in myself because of my disablity, the jokes made about it and all the sympathy I get

These are just a few of the ways I am oppressed. But I admit I am privileged as I am middle classes, I have amazing friends, I am white, I have no sort of religion and I can hide the fact that I’m lgbtq+

and we did an activity where we were given a list of privileges (30 ish) which costed $100 each.

we were in groups and we all had different amounts of money ranging from $300 to $900 and we had to decide within our groups what privileges we were going to spend our money on.

the vast majority of them were queer related, things like being able to see your partner(s) if they were in hospital, being able to raise children without fear of having the state be able to interfere, being able to use a public bathroom without fear of harassment, being able to see books/media that show representation of your identity, etc etc (and some more general ones)

now i was quite shook by this because the rest of the seminar wasn’t related to queer issues and i didn’t know anyone attending the seminar either

my group only had $300 so we picked some more general ones to try cover the bases, like having access to emergency health care, being able to raise children and living your life without worrying about harassment, so we didn’t get to discussion about the ones to do with sexuality

but

like

as an aroace

i felt weird about the ones to do with “your partner(s)” coz it was still very amatonormative (and there were a lot to do with partners)

like i may not need those privileges specifically but they were given such an importance in this list when it would be better if they didn’t need to

... in a way... it’s a privilege in itself to have a partner in this society ://

this shitstorm of “you have to be CisHetHet to actually be cishet” is just a thinly veiled attempt to absolve oneself of cishet privilege and ngl i’m over it.

When a gay person makes a joke about a cishet person to another member of their community - what some call "Othering" - these jokes are a way to relate to our own community by poking fun at the privilege cishet people have and that we don't, a privilege their often oblivious to. Its also a way to cope with living in a world that "Othered" us into being systematically oppressed. But most importantly, these jokes hold no power.

For my friends in the US,this test starts today.

The work to make non-cishet people genuinely free is not over.