This makes a pretty good definition of Privilege

Don’t imagine that your experience of the world is everyone’s experience of the world; that the ease, comfort, support, affection you have received are universal.

The Church of not being horrible

So I got this email from my dad on Wednesday.

Getaway ( Read more... )

I probably should have posted this yesterday as a WTF Wednesday.

Oh FFS, not being deaf is now having “hearing privilege.”

“2. Christians With Hearing Privilege Encounter Music Celebrating Their Holiday Everywhere They Go This Month.”

I am so done with the Everyday Feminist web site and their privilege shaming.

I was going to write a post about what I’m grateful for, because the other day malterre made a post about what she’s grateful for in response to an Everyday Feminism post that she couldn’t find (I suspect it was this one about everyday class privilege). But then I found and read that Everyday Feminism post, and now I’m not feeling grateful any more, I’m ( Read more... )

So I was accused of “tone policing” in a fandom community because I told someone that the topic we were discussed seemed to make them angry, and I didn’t want to upset them further . “Tone Policing” is a code for “I’m pissed off about something, and you can’t tell me to stop cursing.” You hear it a lot when someone on one side of an argument says ( Read more... )

“When one is raised to be conveniently clueless about these things one has to be taught to clue oneself in.”
Source (Warning, it’s a rabbit hole that will eat your entire day ( Read more... )