purple-pill

To be white, or straight, or male, or middle class is to be simultaneously ubiquitious and invisible. You__e everywhere you look, you__e the standard against which everyone else is measured. You__e like water, like air. People will tell you they went to see a __oman doctor_ or they will say they went to see __he doctor._ People will tell you they have a __ay colleague_ or they__l tell you about a colleague. A white person will be happy to tell you about a __lack friend,_ but when that same person simply mentions a __riend,_ everyone will assume the person is white. Any college course that doesn__ have the word __oman_ or __ay_ or __inority_ in its title is a course about men, heterosexuals, and white people. But we call those courses __iterature,_ __istory_ or __olitical science.__his invisibility is political.