Sure, Whites Are Privileged—but Not Me Personally! - Pacific Standard. The Distress of the Privileged. This time, though, it doesn’t work.
No wife, no kids, no food. “Lowest Difficulty Setting” Follow-Up. It’s been a couple of days since I’ve posted the “Lowest Difficulty Setting” piece, and it’s been fun and interesting watching the Intarweebs basically explode over it, especially the subclass of Straight White Males who cannot abide the idea that their lives play out on a fundamentally lower difficulty setting than everyone else’s, and have spun themselves up in tight, angry circles because I dared to suggest that they do.
Those dudes are cracking me up, and also making me a little sad. There have been some general classes of statement/questions about the piece both on the site and elsewhere on the Internet, that I would like to address, so I’ll do that here. Understand I am paraphrasing the questions/statements. Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is. I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a garlic tart at high noon.
It’s not that the word “privilege” is incorrect, it’s that it’s not their word. When confronted with “privilege,” they fiddle with the word itself, and haul out the dictionaries and find every possible way to talk about the word but not any of the things the word signifies. So, the challenge: how to get across the ideas bound up in the word “privilege,” in a way that your average straight white man will get, without freaking out about it? Being a white guy who likes women, here’s how I would do it: Dudes. Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is.
This means that the default behaviors for almost all the non-player characters in the game are easier on you than they would be otherwise. Oh, and one other thing. I am racist, and so are you. And the sooner we both acknowledge this, the sooner we can begin to address the problem.
So let’s talk. “Wait just a minute here, Rachel. You’re like, the least racist person I know. You’re always sharing stuff about race and racism. You couldn’t possibly be racist.” Why Men Are Irritable, Angry, Stressed, and Depressed - Take a Test. The IAT measures the strength of associations between concepts (e.g., black people, gay people) and evaluations (e.g., good, bad) or stereotypes (e.g., athletic, clumsy).
The main idea is that making a response is easier when closely related items share the same response key. What Happens When A Black Man And A White Man Try To Break Into The Same Car. The difference between ads aimed at women and men. Advertising: Pantene Philippines Ad Breaks Down Workplace Stereotypes.
American Psychosis. The United States, locked in the kind of twilight disconnect that grips dying empires, is a country entranced by illusions.
It spends its emotional and intellectual energy on the trivial and the absurd. GoldieBlox Entry. If 3 Little Girls Did This To My House, I'd Do Everything I Could To Get Them Full Rides To Stanford. Deeply Embarrassed White People Talk Awkwardly About Race by Jen Graves. One day in front of a class of art history students at Cornish College of the Arts, I say, "Raise your hand if you're a racist.
" I hadn't planned on this. That class period I was focusing on James Baldwin and Glenn Ligon, both gay men, both African American, and it hit me that because there wasn't a black person in the room, things were getting abstract. This art is valuable and has to be taught—there really is no arguing against Baldwin, and Ligon's painting Black Like Me #2 was one of the first President Obama brought to the White House—but how do you teach someone to have a relationship to it?
Deeply Embarrassed White People Talk Awkwardly About Race by Jen Graves. Four Charts That Prove Obama's Right About Being Black In America. By Annie-Rose Strasser "Four Charts That Prove Obama’s Right About Being Black In America" (Creidt: Shutterstock)
Before and after photoshop. The Questions People Get Asked About Their Race : Code Switch. How do you respond to questions about your culture or race?
Ariel Skelley/Corbis hide caption itoggle caption Ariel Skelley/Corbis How do you respond to questions about your culture or race? Ariel Skelley/Corbis Since Code Switch launched, friends and people on Twitter have been sharing examples of questions they've been asked about their race or culture that they've found interesting, awkward or just plain offensive. We should all be feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at TEDxEuston. The Gender Traits Test 2.0. This page was taken largely from The International Foundation for Androgynous Studies Inc , based on a paper about Androgyny .
The former site had a lame version that didn't have any Javascript to calculate things. So I fixed it. Bechdel test. A measure of the representation of women in fiction The Bechdel test ( BEK-dəl),[1] also known as the Bechdel–Wallace test,[2] is a measure of the representation of women in fiction. It asks whether a work features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The requirement that the two women must be named is sometimes added.[3] About half of all films meet these criteria, according to user-edited databases and the media industry press.
LEGO Friends - LEGO & Gender Part 1. Warren Buffett is bullish ... on women - May. 2, 2013. Warren Buffett with the late Katharine Graham of the Washington Post at his 50th-birthday party in 1980 (Fortune) In the flood of words written recently about women and work, one related and hugely significant point seems to me to have been neglected. It has to do with America's future, about which -- here's a familiar opinion from me -- I'm an unqualified optimist. Now entertain another opinion of mine: Women are a major reason we will do so well. Start with the fact that our country's progress since 1776 has been mind-blowing, like nothing the world has ever seen. These 30 U.S. metropolitan areas are the least diverse in the country. Portland Gentrification: The North Williams Avenue That Was – 1956.
The Skanner News this week unveils our special tribute to the families who lost their homes and businesses over the years Lisa Loving Of The Skanner News August 09, 2011. In Portland's heart, 2010 Census shows diversity dwindling. Portland, already the whitest major city in the country, has become whiter at its core even as surrounding areas have grown more diverse.
Of 354 census tracts in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties, 40 became whiter from 2000 to 2010, according to The Oregonian's analysis of the 2010 Census. Of those, two lie in rural Clackamas County. The 38 others are in Portland. The city core didn't become whiter simply because lots of white residents moved in, the data show. Nearly 10,000 people of color, mostly African Americans, also moved out. And those who left didn't move to nicer areas. White Privilege. WhitePrivilege.pdf (application/pdf Object) Jailbreak the Patriarchy. Even Babies Discriminate: A NurtureShock Excerpt. - Newsweek and The Daily Beast. A Project of the American Anthropological Association. Unpacking the invisible knapsack.