Good article. Since we are all born into global patriarchy, and are involuntarily deposited on upper or lower rungs of the ladder based on sex and skin color, those of us involuntarily deposited on the upper rungs can choose to use our unearned privilege to assist those involuntarly deposited on the "lower" rungs.

The hierarchy stair case has existed for 5,000 years since the destruction of the Goddess societies by patriarchal barbarians (The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler)

We dont have control of which rung of the latter we are born on to but we CAN choose not to abuse our privilege.

As Ida B. Wells Barrett (an ex slave who became a journalist) said "We lift as we climb!"