There's an interesting post about cissexual/cisgender privilege here. The whole "privilege" concept (or at least the word in this context) is relatively new to me; it's only in the last few years I've been reading discussions about male privilege and white privilege and so on. It's a really interesting area of debate, especially the little things that as a member of the privileged group, you just don't notice. Everyone's aware of the major issues that non-white people* face, for example, but you don't think of the fact that as a non-white person in Britain, nothing "flesh-coloured" (crayons, plasters, make-up, tights) is actually the colour of your flesh.

But the more I read, the more privileges I find there are, to the extent that I feel that all I can do is be aware of them. And in any given discussion, you find people who think that if you have X privilege, you can have no valid opinion on anything to do with that situation, and you should just shut up and listen to the people in the minority group, and do what they tell you. Which, while it may be reasonable, is vastly irritating when it means you're being told you know nothing about anything, ever, and you shouldn't presume to have opinions on it.

Anyway, I'm currently aware I have:

• white privilege
  
• heterosexual privilege
  
• cissexual privilege (not cisgender, so much)
  
• class privilege
  
• able-bodied privilege

I'd also say I have some sort of Western/ First World privilege, English-speaking privilege (if there is such a thing, but it feels like there should be), and, oddly, when I read checklists about male privilege, I often feel like that applies to me too. Anything else I should be aware of?

* Tell me if "non-white people" is offensive, but I'm using it because I have an irrational dislike of the phrase "people of colour", which seems to be the in term these days.