Workshop Teaching Students How to Check their “Monosexual Privilege” to be Held at UT-Austin

Just when you thought we were running out of “privileges” to check…

From The College Fix:

Monosexual privilege is defined as a “system of unearned advantages” afforded to straight people at the expense of people with bi, pan and fluid sexual identities, according to a Michigan State University gender and sexuality glossary.

“These advantages and rights are so embedded into all dimensions of society that they are taken for granted and practically unrecognizable to heterosexual people,” the glossary states.

The UT-Austin workshop, scheduled for August, is designed to affirm LGBTQIA+ people and allyship and warn against “heterosexual” and “monosexual” privilege; it’s one of several LGBTQIA+ themed workshops slated for next month, the Daily Wire reported, adding:

The site provides several workshop materials, including one form on “Heterosexual and Monosexual Privilege.” The document lists a total of 44 supposed privileges, including, “I can choose to be in a polyamorous relationship without being accused of reinforcing stereotypes against my sexual-identity group.” Another portion of the list reads “I can easily find representations of people of my sexual-identity group.”

As The College Fix previously reported, in 2017 the institution hosted an “Interrupting Monosexism” workshop. That event aimed to interrupt “biphobia and bi-erasure” and “brainstorm actions for supporting the work of bisexual, pansexual and fluid advocates,” the university’s website stated at the time.

The term “monosexual privilege” has been used in academia for over a decade, according to an internet search of the term.

I mean… there’s not much more to be expected out of Austin, is there? The place is progressive alright… it’s progressing right into yet another unlivable liberal hell hole.

This is what college students need! Not workshops on how to do your taxes, or how to choose a retirement plan! No, no, no, you fool… you need to check a privilege I didn’t even know existed until 10 minutes ago! You’ve never heard of it? Well, that means you’re drowning so deep in aforementioned privilege, that you can’t even see what a hateful bigot you are!

Are you kidding me?

This all sounds very hypocritical. What I derive from this is that the workshop is alleging that the mere existence of straight people is an impediment to the LGBTQ community. That straight people have a “system of unearned advantages.” Ironically, this is exactly what diversity hires do… give people “unearned advantages” so that companies can tick a box. It’s fine in that scenario, though, because it benefits who they deem worthy.

Gag me with a spoon.

More meritocracy, less mediocrity. We’ll all be better for it.