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Swimming in Privilege. Waking Up to Male Entitlement | by Andy Dunn | Medium

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There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?” These words ring particularly true today. As a man in a #TimesUp #MeToo #SayHerName world, it’s not enough to pay lip service for a second and move on. The real work begins with acknowledging that I’ve been swimming in the water of male privilege every minute of my life. I wish I could tell you I saw the water on my own. I didn’t. My wife Manuela showed it to me, like a revelation, step by step. Even in writing this essay, she lit the way. Initially I felt paralyzed. I didn’t know what to write. I don’t feel I’m better than any man out there, or that I have anything to teach, and the more I learn about myself, the less comfortable I feel saying anything at all. So I defaulted to what fel

Swimming in Privilege Waking Up to Male Entitlement Andy Dunn 9 min read · Mar 8, 2018 -- 5 Listen Share David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech at Kenyon College from 2005 begins: There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?” These words ring particularly true today. As a man in a #TimesUp #MeToo #SayHerName world, it’s not enough to pa

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