Interest Checking: This account features everything that a regular checking account has (ATM privileges, check-writing, etc)., but it includes an interest rate, so it acts a little like a regular savings account.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating for some kind of privilege check among America's celebrity leftists.
I'm going to check my shade, check my privilege, check my victimization, check my pride and I'm going to write more, so that I may one day be the champion of the diverse stories that I want to see.
To be nominated for an Oscar this year is to have your privilege checked.
Such privilege-checking becomes a more violent intervention when demanded by someone else.
Instead of defending her position, Penny caved, recanted, and commented mournfully that "having your privilege checked" was painful.
We're especially unlikely to make changes when readers engage in performance art privilege checking and refuse to have a direct dialogue with us.
However, Mensch is not the only one loudly misunderstanding the phrase "privilege checking" – and I'd like to help her out, because it's an important idea.
Repeatedly claiming that you cannot understand simple ideas like "privilege checking" and "intersectionality", as people like Mensch, Hodges and many others have done, often means that you don't want to understand.
The erstwhile MP and professional gadfly has published a blogpost decrying "privilege checking", and longing to return to a species of "reality-based" feminism where everyone would stop bothering her about class, race and money.
Or if a white, male journalist writes a blog for a rightwing newspaper's website sneering at the concept of privilege-checking, he will be told to – OK, you get the picture.
