I like that last paragraph there. It's not quite analogous, but when my friends of color complain about white folks or white privilege, I try really hard not to jump in with "Not all white people". I think saying that itself is an assertion of privilege and a denigration of their experience. It's saying "How dare you…

We can speak however we want, just so long as we make sure to bring along that guy that lists all the side effects in those pharmaceutical ads and let him rattle off the disclaimers for us. Seriously - he talks really fast. He will only be noticed long enough so that no one can gripe that you haven't covered all…

I'm conflicted about this too. When I was a teenager and a geek, that meant I was part of some marginal part of the social environment. Belonging to that group meant I had de-facto friends and de-facto enemies.

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This came across on Twitter via Kristen Bell aka Veronica Mars. 'Wendy of the House Davis'.