"White Feminist Privilege in Organizations" - an Adventure in Hilarity

[jordan179]

Courtesy of firecat at http://firecat.livejournal.com/716757.html,

this is freaking hilarious. Semi-true, but also hilariousFrom Hepshiba's Pad at

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[polaris93]

All of which constitutes yet another good reason for us to colonize other planets and create habitats in places like the asteroid belt and then head for the stars: these heads-in-the-clouds feminists would quickly die out if any of them ever tried to migrate to such a colony. They'd either try ordering everyone else around, and get thrown out the airlocks sans environment suit, or ignore everything everyone had told them about how to survive there ("because, you see, the Patriarchy invented these Rules to Keep Us Down") and die horribly as the result of ignoring said Rules, or otherwise ace themselves out of it due to issues related to their damned Leftist drivel. Out there, the only things that matter are brains and common sense and a strong determination to use them as they are intended -- that, and the other people with you, on whom you will depend for your very life, which means your social awareness and skills. Nothing else. At least until we terraform those places, which will be a loooooonnnnggg time in coming. I mean, if

[operations]

Why do you think that Obama et. all have gutted NASA lately? They don't want us to have a chance to escape their Deuteranopia.

[polaris93]

I know. That doesn't mean we can't do it, only that we'll have to find another way. Maybe hitching a ride on a Mongolian rocket. :-)

[operations]

Contrary to history, every Mongolian I have met has been a pretty nice guy (or girl). I could do that. And their will to survive is awesome, no one better to make the trip with...

[detroitfather]

Great analysis.

I used to have an LJ friend who talked incessantly of white privilege and male privilege. I think it really held her back in life, because so much of her energy went towards being bitter rather than exercising her very great God-given talents.

[gothelittle]

I have wondered at times if *some*.. not all, but some people cultivate that bitterness in hopes that they can guilt-trip someone else into owing them a living.

[operations]

Oh, they do.

[operations]

For example, see the people who sued the State of California over Prop 209 before the ink had even dried. Even the 9th Circus Court of Appeals had to send that one back as ridiculous. They were not suing because they feared a loss of rights under Equal Protection, but because they feared a loss of their special rights.

[cutelildrow]

I'm amused, but unfortunately one DOES encounter this. It's why I don't want to talk to such people any more. Why, no, I'm not grateful you want to dictate my life and opinions to me. Why should I be?

Besides, those same people would see my balanced partnership with a man as a BETRAYAL OF ALL THAT IS FEMINIST... and yeah. e_e

[jordan179]

Oh yes, I'm not saying that the attitude of the white feminists isn't real. I'm saying that it stems from their own arrogance, rather than their "white privilege" -- and that they are more racist than they care to acknowledge. Part of the reason for the claim of all-encompassing and unavoidable white "privilege" is that it lets white racists off the hook.

"Alas, I acted on my inherent and unavoidable white privilege when I dismissed your ideas as coming from a Mere Little Brown Person. I am aware of my white privilege and will now listen to you in silence to show respect."

Except that it isn't really "respect" they're showing. It's that they don't think what the other person is saying to them is really worth a reply. One respects someone by taking what someone says seriously, for good or bad, and engaging with their ides. Including criticizing the other person when one disagrees.

Going "Oh, you're so special. Let's listen to your special ideas in silence," and then going on afterward as if no point had been made is quite

[cutelildrow]

As I illustrated here with a firsthand, personal experience of such ugly feminists.

[polaris93]

I wonder what they'd think if they knew that there are women out here who believe that they've betrayed life itself -- noy in the sense that some fundamentalists would use the phrase, but rather in the sense that they've betrayed their entire species and all life on Earth. My bet is that their reaction would be that life has betrayed them, that they are entitled to enslave all other life and be able to order it to do anything they wanted.

Women like that, and their male hangers-on, have forgotten what their brains are for, what life itself is for. They're living in a fantasy-land from which they can never return, because they've lost the road back to sanity.

[kitten_goddess]

Earlier this spring, I actually tried to be politically correct. I had seen people on the Internet be politically correct, and I thought I had to do that in order to fit in. (Yes, I'm a white liberal.) All I did was piss off two of my female friends. One identifies as black, the other as Native American.

I don't think people on the Left will start asserting any racial superiority. Lots of white liberal guilt carried to a ridiculous conclusion, as I did, is more likely.