Notices tagged with privilege

Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Acting White

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• privilege
• race

"Asians tend to be perceived as “white” not because they have white skin but because they behave as white people are expected to behave — they pursue prosperity and value education, and seek to blend into the U.S.’s broad middle class rather than creating a defiant, adversarial ghetto or barrio culture."

may 2011 archives | cloud's blog

• apunte
• blogmadpowahorg
• código
• ejemplo
• escalation
• extraordinario
• fascinante
• freebsd
• guía
• jails
• privilege
• seguridad
• servidores
• sitio
• using

fascinante extraordinario servidores sitio seguridad guía ejemplo código apunte freebsd privilege escalation using jails blog.madpowah.org

Feminist Mormon Housewives » Female Privilege and Anti-Feminism

• feminism
• privilege
• sexism

Men are not the only recipients of gender-based benefits in our society. Society does grant women some privileges based on gender, such as the ubiquitous draft immunity. That is undoubtedly a privilege. Which is to say that female privilege does exist. But compare the two lists, and it becomes clear very quickly. Male privilege is what matters, and female privilege is a collection of shitty consolation prizes. You’re a woman: You have a much lower chance of ever being a political leader, or of ever controlling any decisions made in geopolitics. The boys game of war is likely to victimize you horrifically. But if the boys ever do decide to go to war, you won’t get drafted. Doesn’t that make you happy? You’ve got female privilege! // via @azurelunatic

» “Straight Male Gamer” told to ‘get over it’ by BioWare No More Lost

• lgbt
• oppression
• privilege
• videogames

"The romances in the game are not for “the straight male gamer”. They’re for everyone. We have a lot of fans, many of whom are neither straight nor male, and they deserve no less attention ... The “rights” of anyone with regards to a game are murky at best, but anyone who takes that stance must apply it equally to both the minority as well as the majority. The majority has no inherent “right” to get more options than anyone else ... You can write it off as “political correctness” if you wish, but the truth is that privilege always lies with the majority. They’re so used to being catered to that they see the lack of catering as an imbalance ... The very best we can do is give everyone a little bit of choice, and that’s what we tried here. And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least." Thank you, David Gaider of BioWare. You just made me interested in your games.

git.kernel.org - linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/commitdiff

• acpi
• atención
• gitkernelorg
• interés
• líder
• method
• privilege
• problem
• scalation

atención interés líder acpi method privilege scalation problem git.kernel.org

elf: Some comments about "Citizenship"

• assimilation
• bigotry
• citizenship
• deconstruction
• elizabethmoon
• immigration
• islamophobia
• privilege
• toread

Someone was asking if there was a post describing the problems with Moon's post (since many of the current reading crowd, brought in by right-wing blogs, aren't practiced at recognizing the language of covert bigotry), and it came up that many of the now-deleted comments did that. However, I don't think anyone tried a point-by-point rundown (because it gets long, and also, because conversations work better one point at a time).

Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Most Controversial Quotes About Privacy

• ericschmidt
• google
• maleprivilege
• privacy
• privilege
• quotes
• whiteprivilege

"We don't need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about." "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites. He allegedly said that people who take issue with their homes appearing online “can just move” after Google cars photograph their homes or businesses. "When you go to school it will help you learn, since this device knows far more than you ever will." ""In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you." "In this new future you're never lost...We will know your position down to the inch over time. Your car will drive itself. You're never lonely, bored, out of ideas."

Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog

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• equality
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• women

If you were hacking since age 8, it means you were privileged. « Restructure!

• affirmativeaction
• computerscience
• privilege
• programming
• racism
• sexism

About three-quarters of the men that Margolis and Fisher interviewed fit the profile of someone with an intense and immediate attraction to computing that started at a young age, in contrast to about one-quarter of the women in their study. Fisher explained, “There is a dominant culture of ‘this is how you do computer science,’ and if you do not fit that image, that shakes confidence and interest in continuing.” According to Margolis and Fisher (2002, p. 72), “A critical part of attracting more girls and women in computer science is providing multiple ways to ‘be in’ computer science.” // In other words, at least 75% of male CS undergraduates had parents who were affluent enough to be able to afford computers at a time when computers were very expensive. Clearly, enrollment in CS is a social product of class privilege, not innate ability. Furthermore, this implies that computer geek prestige is an indicator of class privilege, in addition to being connected to technical proficiency.

Tiger Beatdown › 13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon

• bodyimage
• feminism
• intersectionality
• privilege

I have, for some time, been referring to a particularly irritating brand of privileged semi-feminism as "Liz Lemonism." I associate this brand of feminism with a certain variety of white, coastal-city dwelling, fairly well-to-do heterosexual cisgendered woman, a woman with a comfortable white-collar job that is so very comfortable and so very white-collar that she is free to spend her spare time yearning for, and semi-believing that she could attain, something with more "meaning." This woman doesn’t do posts about sex workers’ rights, but she does do complaining about "raunch culture"; she doesn’t do anti-racism, disability activism, or trans ally work to any huge extent, but she does do "body image" (and oh, does she ever do body image, without taking much note of the fact that as a white, abled, cis person she conforms to the "beauty standard," and benefits from conforming to it, in more ways than she will ever let on).

Chromatic Comics at Fantastic Fangirls: Comics and Culture

• casting
• hollywood
• privilege
• race

The recasting meme going around.

Guest Blogger Starling: Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced « Kate Harding's Shapely Prose

• 2009
• crime
• essay
• feminism
• privilege
• psychology
• rape
• women

"So when you, a stranger, approach me, I have to ask myself: Will this man rape me? ... When you approach me in public, you are Schrödinger’s Rapist. You may or may not be a man who would commit rape. I won’t know for sure unless you start sexually assaulting me. I can’t see inside your head, and I don’t know your intentions. If you expect me to trust you—to accept you at face value as a nice sort of guy—you are not only failing to respect my reasonable caution, you are being cavalier about my personal safety."

Seeking Avalon: White Ignorance + Racism

• fantasy
• multiculturalism
• privilege
• race
• racism
• representation
• thelastairbender
• whiteprivilege

Ami Angelwings mentions this very thing constantly. She's Chinese Canadian. Chinese New Year, celebrated by Chinese Canadians, is seen as Chinese. Whereas Saint Patrick's Day is seen just as Canadian. Not Irish Canadian, but Canadian. The normalizing of European Ethnicity as default White Culture means so many individuals probably feel they're knowledgeable because they know about Octoberfest and Green Beer and Renaissance Fairs. Another place this ignorance comes up is when fantasy fiction that includes non-white ethnic mythology and traditional storytelling gets labeled Magical Realism, because Fantasy Fiction happens in Pseudo Europes. Which leads me back to Avatar and all the people who said it's fantasy so there aren't any Chinese, Japanese, Inuit People!! Because Fantasy happens in Pseudo Europes which means white people.

“The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online” at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

• class
• meta
• privilege
• race
• sociology

Consider the discussion of the Iranian election. If you were in certain cohorts, you couldn’t miss the green-ification of people’s profiles, the discussions of #iranelection. But, even though said conversations were massively prolific, only a small percentage of the user base was even aware of this beyond the trending topic. Those who were following 50cent and Miley Cyrus were oblivious to these conversations. And, in a matter of moments, this became visible when Michael Jackson died and captured the attention of a much broader swath of users, nearly taking Twitter down with it. In your world, Iran probably matters more than Michael Jackson. But don’t for a second think that this is universal.

peter li'ir key - what is privilege?

• essay
• livejournal
• privilege
• race

Beware bail-out kings and backbench barons - All demonstrate an exaggerated sense of entitlement.

• entitlement
• incumbents
• johnkay
• power
• privilege

Dukes and cardinals, oligarchs and financiers, fixers and traders become very wealthy not by virtue of their talents but as a result of the position they occupy. Legislators and the heads of large corporations readily come to feel that their functions deserve similar recognition. We may be relaxed that some people do become filthy rich, but we should not be relaxed about how they become so or how they behave once they are.

Alas, a blog » The Male Privilege Checklist

• culture
• feminism
• list
• privilege
• sexism
• sociology

Keep It Trill: Obama's Half-Brother George: Dirt Poor But Richer Than Many Of Us

• 2008
• culture
• family
• interesting
• obama
• privilege

we dont need another anti-racism 101 « guerrilla mama medicine

• 2009
• culture
• privilege
• racism
• white

"i used to be an antiracism trainer for a progressive organization a few years ago. i was really really good at. this year i finally realized after a lot of soul searching that teaching white folks how to be good allies is not helpful to anyone. … its like us giving white folks all the correct rhetoric just allows for them to be able to better racists, because they are able to justify their racism using anti-racist rhetoric. in that they are able to say things like: i realize that such and such is a function of racism and then they continue to do the same fucking thing that they just acknowledged was racist."

G20 summit: Prince Philip's 'joke' about world - Flash Player Installation

• privilege
• race
• racism

Yeah, privileged old white man puts racist foot in mouth again, but what people can't stop talking about is Michelle Obama trying to hug the Queen of England. And both incidents are being called "faux pas." Um, WHAT?!