Ever notice that everyone's supposed to have bootstraps except white people?:
I disagree. People who don’t understand my depression have callously told me to pull myself up by my bootstraps and stop “feeling sorry for” myself. It’s not a racial thing.
I think it’s more an out-group thing. If you aren’t white, middle class+, hetero, cis, able-bodied, etc., then chances are someone who has never had to pull themselves up with anything because they’ve always been on top (or at least, a whole lot closer to it than you are) is going to tell you that you need some bootstraps.