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Originally Posted by Chris
Is the author a wheelchair bound, HIV+ black lesbian muslim woman?
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A white heterosexual, able-bodied, married with child, middle-aged, middle-class, middle America, reasonably prosperous, author, pointing out the things he doesn't have to think (or worry) about day to day (but that perhaps he should, because others have to....)
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Originally Posted by Chris
An everywoman? It sounds more like a nowoman to me. 
I appreciate what the author is trying to do but I think he/she has laid it on far too thick. I'm rarely in the mood to give people a hearing when their motive appears to be the 'I'm going to make you feel guilty for being a white heterosexual western man' thing. |
I understand what you are saying, but he was not trying to do that (as he states in the feedback comments in his blog (linked to in the OP)) - he was just trying, in his own way, to point out that sometimes we take what we have for granted (and sometimes think less of others who do not have those things, be they health, wealth, skin colour, religion, etc), and that just because people are different, does not mean they are less (but that some people treat them as such without thinking).
That was my interpretation, anyway.....