The two men went to the Senate together in 1984 and shared some of the same qualities: intellectual seriousness, aloofness, a background of privilege and high expectations.
The woman, who cleaves to the disadvantaged, and who comes from a background of some privilege, is admirable and far-sighted but a bit of a pill.
"Coming from a background of relative privilege, there are a number of things that I look out and think, 'Whoa, were it not for an accident of birth, it could be me under these circumstances,' " he said.
She comes from a background of class and privilege, I don't.
Both protagonists follow the same trope of the bungling woman whose life crashes down around her as hilarity ensues, set against a background of middle-class privilege.
He came from a background of law and community organising.
I come from a background of thermodynamics.
"Not only does he come from a place of privilege, not only was he a lawyer from a good background, but he had the resources to produce the report and mental health evaluations," he said.
Two people from totally different backgrounds -- Norcia from the streets of Little Italy, Eileen Ford from a world of privilege -- weren't really so different after all.
And of course, Schumer is able to present her body from a position of privilege.
I understand that I say this from a place of privilege: passing privilege, racial privilege, and male privilege.
