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That you can find discussion with a focused search doesn't really address the opinion that "the people who usually talk about [privilege]" haven't "properly acknowledged" things like beauty privilege.

Certainly, sophisticated academics and other deep thinkers consider – or at least mention when being comprehensive – the many possible dimensions of privilege. They're not secrets, nor unstudied.

But the people most often flagging things like "white privilege" or "male privilege" often don't mention things like "height privilege" or "beauty privilege" or "personality privilege". They don't want the distraction.

Google result counts:

    9,760,000 [white privilege]
    1,590,000 [male privilege]
      432,000 [beauty privilege]
        3,130 [height privilege]
Some even get prickly if it's mentioned that those other privileges can have a larger influence on relevant measurable outcomes, like say income, than headline-grabbing race/gender privileges.


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