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People who focus heavily on this, tend to have issues with being racist / sexist / mysoginistic / etc, or at the very least saying things that are considered that these days.

However, this sentiment is not 100% out of nowhere or without context. Everything in life is a gradient / spectrum / bell curve, and there will always be some minority of people that take things too far.

I've experienced people dismissing my opinion because I appear to be strongly in the privileged class, and while some of those times I've reflected and realized my input really wasn't needed and I was too excited to talk, there have been others where the point I was making had nothing to do with class or privilege, and others where people have not realized that I'm a silent minority and I've still been dismissed out of hand.

I do also feel bad for the generations older than me, as there does seem to be biases towards:

a) assuming that older looking people are more prejudiced

b) focusing on using modern correct language rather than processing the intent of what they're saying.

For example, as my grandma got older and older, she reverted more and more to the language she grew up with, using problematic terms like mulatto etc. and she was an active gay and racial rights campaigner in the 50s and 60s who had stopped using words like that by the 90s and 00s. But people are fallible and stuff from our upbringing does get ingrained in us on a deep level.

Everyone would do better with trying to be more understanding, including us men when we feel slightly targeted by people taking privilege correction a little too far.