ETA: This post is US-centric, and I should have made that clear. How much or little it applies to other countries, I can't say. As soon as employers made college a necessity for jobs of any significant income (and even some of shockingly low income, such as "receptionist") back in the 80s or 90s, college started...
(This post has a definite US slant, simply because that's the only country whose culture I've experienced firsthand. I suspect it's different elsewhere - feel free to comment.) This all started from a comment made by DNi on my post, Personal Privilege List. I started thinking about it, then some stuff happened,...
One of the most annoying privilege memes I've ever dealt with is "Anyone can get rich in this great country; if they don't, it means they're just not working hard enough." I encountered this meme almost daily as a kid growing up in a highly conservative "red state" in the US, but I imagine there are variations of it...
If you find yourself in agreement with a dominant belief - the most popular religion in your culture, a love of the favored local sports team, or the belief that life is mostly neat and people are mostly good-hearted - you may occasionally have trouble distinguishing someone who doesn't lick your butt in agreement...
If you blog about white privilege, you're probably sick to death of people playing the "white trash" card in your comments. Their argument usually goes something like this: "Being white didn't give me all these privileges you're talking about." "I know plenty of [minority] people who are better off than I...
One of my more controversial articles on Hathor has been How Not to Raise a Rapist. In it, I assert that the way to avoid raising a son or daughter who sexually assaults people is simply not to abuse your kids (the logic behind which is in the post). The comment thread brought up a form of abuse that not everyone recognized as abuse: teaching your child that he is the special golden chose one to whom no rules apply. … READ MORE
It’s kind of amazing. I wrote a post a while back about how introverts are not privileged in the USA. I wrote about ways in which introverts are cool and don’t get as much credit as they should and why introverts might not be the USA’s idea of perfect citizens. But quite a few extroverts who responded only read the post from a “How does this affect me?” standpoint. Numerous comments claimed “You said extroverts are [x], you are prejudiced … READ MORE
I just found out a university has blocked this site from its students. They’re fine with Hathor, apparently – that one’s still available, but not this one. I have one response:
Fuck you, pathetic assholes.
I can’t even find a trigger word that would set off the most ham-fisted filter (that’s not on Hathor, anyway). I guess someone’s feeling awfully threatened by me. Really, there is no higher compliment than censorship. Proves you’re doing your job.
I’m not sure why lately commenters have been expressing to me the idea that if they leave a four-foot-long comment, they are automatically entitled to a lengthy response in which I address every point. Let me tell you – if life worked like that, a bunch of us online feminist/womanist types could tie up all the online misogynists with really long comments every day until the misogynists were all dead. There they would be, unable to accomplish their misogynistic goals … READ MORE
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