Where angels fear to tread

Elena Perez is using the language of ‘privelege’ to explain and challenge child-hatred bigotry, more successfully than pretty much everyone else who has attempted it… but still, what will intersectional feminists make of it?

I can speak my native language with fluency and always be understood by other native speakers. I will almost never be laughed at by another speaker of my native language for my language choices, or inability to express myself. If I am routinely yelled at, criticized, and belittled in my own home, almost everyone will recognize that as abusive behavior. I cannot legally be physically disciplined in my place of education. If I am hit, even once, by a loved one, that can be legally considered abuse. I have legal standing to protect myself. My physical and emotional needs are treated as reasonable and important. I am not dependent on others for my economic support.

(By the way, the title refers not to Perez’s piece but to some others before her who have attempted such a comparison and instead managed racism, classism, homophobia and a host of other wrongs).