One person's sense of entitlement is another one's empowerment... maybe. It can be an obnoxious sense of over-entitlement at everyone else's expense no matter what, or it can be functional and useful. If I didn't have my upper middle class whitegirl sense of entitlement, I might not see the ways that I believe everybody is entitled to... whatever it is... and I might not have the nerve to speak up for myself or for other people. That whitegrrl entitlement is a belief that what I have to say is important, that my own needs are important.
Where did this come from, the idea that we're not all entitled?
I've been smacked around many times by other less feminist, less "entitled" women so many times, in fact, near every time I've ever opened my mouth in a public forum, for daring to say anything (without being sure, without being the right kind of authority, without using the right language, without being right). To hell with that...
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