&gt;&gt;Privilege is multifactorial. There are such things as white privilege, and male privilege; but those are not the only (nor arguably, the most significant) privileges there are.&lt;&lt;<p>Well, that&#x27;s exactly the problem with the &quot;white male privilege&quot; verbage: it&#x27;s just one single angle of the global problem regarding social &#x2F; ethnic class issues.<p>Even from an Euro-American perspective... When it comes down to it, who has more &quot;privilege&quot; or social status? A college educated Asian-American woman from an urban, wealthy family? Or a poor, rural uneducated white male from, say, Appalachia or the Deep South?<p>Yes, there are obviously people with lower &quot;social standing&quot; than the poor, rural, uneducated white male -- and color or sex does play a part. But the point is,  sex and race are not the <i>only</i> factors that make up social status, even from a Euro-American angle.<p>If you factor class issues in the entire world, it gets even more complicated. Each area has their own quirks and social structure.<p>Unfortunately I find that many people who advance the &quot;check your privilege&quot; arguments are not very nuanced. Social status is complicated. So I think it does a disservice in the end. Again, let&#x27;s take that a poor, rural, uneducated white male in Appalachia, no job since the coal mines shut down, on benefits, etc. They come across an article written by a college educated woman, in an urban area, probably making quite a bit more than he is. And this person is telling all white males to &quot;check their white male privilege&quot;.<p>What do you think this person is going to think?