baubles of my mind's eye

newwavefeminism:

The point isn’t that differences exist. It’s not about who is different and why, whether these differences are socially constructed or biologically inherent, whether the difference falls within or fits into a forced dichotomy.

It’s the fact that we live in a society that privileges differences associated with a certain class and group over all else.  We allow our systems and rules to take differences and declare them as a disadvantage on an institutional level. People get so upset when you point out difference, difference in culture, ideology, theory… As if its the acknowledgment of difference that breeds disadvantage. No, it’s ignoring the fact that we live in a society where the majority takes for granted that only their personhood is declared as legitimate while all these differences are marked as the “deviant other” by default.

(via sanaa-tamir)