Feminism and Diversity

...that there have been 37 billion homo sapiens sapiens on the planet over the history of our species. When I read that I thought to myself, "Well, then I am among the 1 billion luckiest, most privileged members of our species ever."

You might not think that to look at me. I'm not a member of the 1 percent. I do a lot of things wrong, and have some problems (like everybody else). I don't think anyone has ever looked at me and thought "this is one of the luckiest, most privileged people ever."

But I think about that at least once a week. I suppose today is that day for this week...

(more recently, I read somewhere else that there have been 100 billion homo sapiens sapiens. that would put me in the luckiest, most privileged 2-3 billion. whatever...)