<i>I should note that I’m planning to Mallet anyone who decides to start a debate on the word “privilege” in this thread. I’ve already established that straight white dudes often cannot deal with the term rationally; there’s no need for a) any of them to prove it, b) anyone else to reiterate the fact.</i><p>Not much room for disagreeing with his summation now is there.
Well, the only level easier than SWM is "(Upper)-Middle-class minority playing the minority card".<p>If you're gay from a poor family in Alabama, you got it tough.<p>If you're gay from an upper middle class family in, say, New York, you can use it to your advantage.
SWM: still several orders of magnitude harder than being a beautiful woman.<p>Seinfeld as evidence: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb72AJDFAjE" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb72AJDFAjE</a>