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Category Archives: Privilege
Forcing all spaces to be privilege-oriented spaces
A lot of time my Privilege in Action posts are born out of me seeing two unrelated areas of interest facing the same exact privileged arguments. This time, it’s on the subject of women-oriented spaces, but of course it can … Continue reading
Posted in Privilege in Action, Video Games
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On air Privilege in Action
Maybe it’s a little unfair to be using FoxNews as the subject of a PiA post, since that station seems to go out of its way to defend and perpetuate bigotry, but the methodology is exactly the same as people … Continue reading
More real world Privilege in Action: Casual heterosexism
I wrote about my language school for another PiA post here, but I’d like to bring it up again today. My topic here is heterosexism and it’s in similar vein to the first post and, again, about a reoccurring pattern. … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Privilege in Action, Queer Issues, The Evil -ism's
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Angry Black Woman on Political Correctness
Angry Black Woman has an excellent piece on “political correctness”. In Defense of Political Correctness explores the attitudes behind disparaging PC-ness and why we shouldn’t accept them. An excerpt: My guess is that, since I have never been clear on … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Privilege
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"Black is an EXTRA feature… Therefore, you hav[e] to PAY for it."
Via kynn who found it via symbioid; some information on Acclaim’s new game, Dance, where the default is white. One of the users took issue with this and began a thread called, I GOTTA PAY TO BE BLACK? This situation … Continue reading
Posted in Privilege in Action, Racism, Video Games
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White "perks" versus white privilege
Kynn has a thought provoking post making the distinction between “perks” and “privilege”: Let’s talk about how I use the term “white privilege.” There are certain things which are gifted to every white person, which aren’t fully afforded to people … Continue reading
Posted in Privilege, Racism
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On being an anti-racist white ally
Two separate instances on live journal have really had me thinking about my commitment to be anti-racist. The first is a series of posts by my LJ friend kynn, which I won’t link to here because there’s, um, quite a … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Privilege, Racism
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Harassment, silencing, and gaming communities: follow-up
I just wanted to do a quick follow-up on my Harassment, silencing, and gaming communities, posting some relevant links. First up is Lake Desire with her thoughts on my piece. My favourite part is where she says this: I want … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, rape, and domestic violence, Discrimination, Privilege, The Evil -ism's, The Internet is Serious Business, Video Games
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Yes, Kotaku, you WERE the reason why we started TIN! And also, Santa is real.
Brian Crecente of Kotaku has tried to take credit for the inception of The IRIS Network. I’m not even joking: In my caveman like attempts at prodding talented, strong-voiced women into writing more vocally about gaming I have stirred the … Continue reading
Ability Perception and Privilege
My partner recently alerted me to a recent study which examines attribution theory; the effect of what we see as the cause of our successes or failures. As Moore indicates in his summary, the short version is that if we … Continue reading
Posted in Privilege, Studies
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