aboutmaleprivilege:

male privilege is “i have a boyfriend” being the only response that might actually stop a guy from coming onto you, because he respects another man more than he respects your actual opinion/lack of interest. 

(Source: all-about-male-privilege)

adropofred:

from now on every time i’ll describe a white character in a story i’ll mention they’re white

because why is “the black girl” or “the ebony-skinned man” an acceptable epithet but not “the white boy”?????

spastasmagoria:

strawberrypatty:

spastasmagoria:

that’s because you have skinny, pretty white girl privilege. Your deep knowledge of nerdy topics is esoteric and cute. Mine is obsessive and strange. Your personality quirks are endearing. Mine are weird. When you wear clothes that make you happy, you are chic and bohemian. When I wear clothes that make me happy, I’m that weirdo fat chick with bad fashion sense. So, y’know. Excuse me for wanting to punch both you and your character in the face whenever you whine about how nobody accepts you. no… everybody accepts you. You’re what a geek girl is “supposed” to be. YOU’re the one the guys want to talk to, and the rest of us, since we don’t meet some minimal standard of cute, are seen neither as dating material nor as even friend material, and worth their time in a conversation. Sorry this is a bunch of bitterness toward “quirky” girls and our perception/treatment of them, at the expensive of OTHER girls don’t fit the supermodel mold. 

Seriously. I cannot convey my feelings any better than you have already done. I’m so fucking sick of the awkward geek girl who is perfect in her awkward geekiness, because she’s cute.

See above. Yes. That’s how I feel. It’s like she exists, so the rest of us aren’t real people with legitimate interests and strengths and weaknesses and talents and shit. Because we’re great, but we’re not the awkward ingenue. 

(Source: i-do-not-understand-why)

The problem with sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist, etc., remarks and “jokes” is not that they’re offensive, but that by relying for their meaning on harmful cultural narratives about privileged and marginalized groups they reinforce those narratives, and the stronger those narratives are, the stronger the implicit biases with which people are indoctrinated are. That’s real harm, not just “offense.

I Don’t Care If You’re Offended by Scott Madin   (via chubby-bunnies)

keepingitconceptual:

“You can’t take a joke” is usually just code for “I’m an asshole, stop bringing attention to the fact that I’m a shitty person”

(Source: digigender)

seppin:

protip: if you are able to say “who cares, why do people get so offended all the time” you are remarkably lucky to be so privileged that there is nothing about you that makes you feel unsafe in the world 

cerberusdad:

man idk for some reason it’s ok for you guys to make gay jokes but as soon as i want to make a joke at the expense of straight white cis people i’ve crossed the line

(Source: inkse)

(Source: 8manderz8)

You can’t win with them: no protest will ever be peaceful enough, docile enough, non-threatening enough to suit their wishes. Expressions of anger against the status quo will always be called disruptive, even violent. Meanwhile, we live in a system that privileges the accumulation of capital over the value of human life, and oppresses us according to our gender, race, ability, age, or class in order to sustain that accumulation. This system enacts daily violence on both those who defy it and those who simply live within it. This violence may be physical – such as the police brutality, surveillance, and disproportionate arrests experienced by student protestors and also by communities of colour, queer communities, and others on a routine basis. Or it may be less tangible but equally destructive, such as the effects of being systematically excluded from higher education, higher-paying jobs, and the possibility of economic “success.

Mona Luxion, quoted in Resistance is not violence: putting property damage and economic disruption in perspective at the McGill Daily (April 28th, 2012)

trespassurged:

PFFT. Basically half the people I come into contact with on a daily basis.

(Source: damnlayoffthebleach)

cartoonpolitics:

uh-oh ..

But it’s a JOOOOOKE.”
Here’s the thing about jokes. They only work when they’re aiming up. I wrote this in another piece recently, but I’m just going to plagiarize myself: People in positions of power simply cannot make jokes at the expense of the powerless. That’s why, at a company party, you never have a roast where the CEO is roasting the janitor (“Isn’t it funny how Steve can barely feed his family? This guy knows what I’m talking about!” [points to other janitor]). Because that would be GROSS, and both janitors would have to work late to clean up everyone’s barf. Open-mic comedians, I know you think you’re part of some fresh vanguard in alternative comedy who just discovered that a lot of black ladies don’t like it when you touch their hair, but pleeeeeeease just stick to stuff about how your stupid girlfriend is a bitch. (Just kidding. Please never speak again.)

Lindy West, “A Complete Guide to Hipster Racism” (Jezebel)

The concise phrasing of “jokes only work when they’re aiming up” is something I have been struggling to articulate for literally years. 

(via onlytowardschaos)

(via lilacblossoms)

(Source: sorveharth)

glitter-femin1sts:

this is flawless

ladyatheist:

radicalqueery:

vaultdweller:

These posters show different white people covered in revealing truths about white privilege. According to an article in MPR news, A 2010 survey found Duluth residents viewed the city as less hospitable to racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, young adults without children, and talented college graduates looking for work than other comparable cities. The survey ended up starting a dialogue about racial issues which facilitated a way in which to combat them. Awareness.

I may have posted this before. If I have, I don’t care. This needs to be seen again. This is a campaign designed to make white people see and check their privilege. It is so refreshing to see a group of white people who get it.

Not All Like That

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

guerrillamamamedicine:

ladyatheist:

alexandraerin:

Imagine a minefield… a strip of land seeded with traps that will maim or kill you if you put one foot in the wrong place. What’s the wrong place? You’ll know when you step there. There’s no rhyme or reason to it. The pattern that gets you safely through one part might get you killed in another part.

It isn’t that every square inch of soil in the minefield means certain death, of course. But what would the ratio of safe ground to mined ground have to be before you could actually relax, before you could feel safe… before you could be safe, in practical terms?

Imagine that you and your entire family are woken up at dawn every day and made to cross the minefield in order to just live your lives. You’re not allowed to take the same route as each other. You have to watch each other as you make your way through an invisible deadly maze, never knowing if today will be the day but always knowing that it could be.

And one day, while you’re in the middle of that maze, watching your children or your siblings pick their way carefully around you, you say, “I HATE EVERY LAST INCH OF THIS FUCKING MINEFIELD.”

And then you hear a voice from up above you, from someone who doesn’t have to walk the minefield… someone who’s allowed to use a footbridge to bypass it every day while you’re inching your way through it, someone who gets a head start on everything compared to you and yours because they don’t have to go through the minefield…

And the voice says, “That isn’t fair. Sure, some of the minefield will kill you if you step on it, but it isn’t all like that.”

This is for every person who has come to me on both twitter and tumblr talking about “we’re not all like that”. I’m so sick of hearing that shit.

this is beautiful. 

Bay. Sick. Lee.

On: Privilege. [in terms of identity and social structure]

Because while it’s not okay to ATTACK/OFFEND someone based on their privilege, 
It’s not offensive for minorities to point out that privileges exist and oppress us.

There’s a difference. Attack the privilege and the harmful ideas of social norm and dominant identities, plus the people who enforce them. Not the people who accept those privileges and live with them regardless. (Eg: A white person who accepts they have a privilege in the world, but takes effort in not exoticizing, generalizing, and/or belittling other races. Because they can’t change that they are white, but they CAN make an effort to destroy the norm of white as a ‘default,’ as what’s considered ‘normal.’