Privilege and How My Mom Called Me Out on Mine.
Privilege has been a hot topic in the media. The terms "white privilege" and "male privilege" have been tossed around a lot. I didn't really buy into the whole privilege argument. I thought it was silly to state that someone was privileged because of their race or sex, especially when so many people struggle regardless of race, sex or socioeconomic status. The more traction that the theory gained, the more types of privilege were bandied about in the media and in the personal finance community on twitter ("American privilege", etc) And then, just a few weeks ago, my Mom called me out on my privilege. Mom told me that I was privileged. I was shocked. How could I be privileged? We were not a wealthy family when I was child. I'm not wealthy now. All of the money that I have saved and the assets that I have accumulated are based on my own hard work. I went into debt for law school and paid back all of my student loan...