Wendy is probably correct. (What was the source of the exact phrase; Joanna didn't quote a source in her original post.) But as Michael beautifully illustrated, the word "privilege" is often grossly misused. Rights are mistaken for privileges; privileges are mistaken for rights. And as someone wrote recently, we _do_ 'live inside" our ideologies: that is why collective judgment is so often superior even to that of the brightest individual. And all privileges are not to be sneered at; I think I used the word correctly when I visited the late Beulah Kennedy the day before she died: "Beulah, it's been a privilege to know you and an honor to be your friend."
Carrol