Because this is one of the ways in which I have normalized my privileges. My unearned advantages, including my: socio-economic-, educational(legacy)-, no ‘criminal’ record-, color-,  age-, assumed-sexuality-, cisgender-, physical-,  and amerikkkan nationality privilege give me unquestioned ‘networking privilege’. even in a white supremacist patriarchal capitalist system that at best ignores my existence as a queer Black woman, through these privileges, in this same oppressive system, i have unfair access to employment, resources, and connections. and because of these and i do not have to actively network. it’s been done. it is elitist, classist, and white supremacist of me to act as though i am functioning in the system (and against the system) solely through ‘deep people-to-people connections’, it’s just not true and it is oppressive.