Your comeback: “No, your white privilege is being able to drive that car without fear of getting shot.”

Unfortunately, you can replace drive and car for almost anything and it will still apply in the US.

I work with white men who I’ve heard say with total seriousness that they are the true minority.  It’s so tiring.

I find it helpful to think of it in terms of a lack of obstacles, rather than the presence of advantages. It seems like that’s the idea people often get hung up on — “my life sucks and nothing goes well for me, so where is this privilege?” — and I don’t think they’re really wrong to think that way. It’s like an…

“White privilege” is sort of like “toxic masculinity” in that people make an assumption about the meaning, make absolutely no attempt to verify their assumption, and then act like it’s liberal nonsense instead of a real thing that happens in society and affects all of us.

Couple that with the fact that there’s a…

I’ve tried starting the old Chris Rock joke about his neighborhood having Jay-Z, Chris Rock, and random white dentists and lawyers.

Damn this hit a bit home, the majority of my coworkers are white. Lately they have been joking about their white privilege. For example “oh I have WHITE PRIVILEGE, so I have a car.”

This. Is. Terrifying. Have you ever heard the folklore of the “black eyed children”? Her insistent wanting to get inside reminded me of that—and your primal, instinctive resistance to taking the plate she brought or even fully opening the door.  

Could someone please help me get out of the greys? My story comes from a friend but it reminds me of the past winner “Look at me”. It’s super scary! Please help me get the word out!

Response? “Because that would require me to not think of them in any sort of sexual way, ever!” -OR- “If I accept that such things are possible for others (ie transsexual) then it might happen to me!!!”

Here you go bringing logic into this!  We can’t have that!  On a trivial comparison matter it’s like the “no piercings/tattoos/colored hair” rules some offices try to put into place.  Bitch this is a call center, NOBODY CAN SEE TATTOOS.  Similarly if any employee of any orientation, gender (cis, trans, non binary) can…

the root word of sexual is sex. anything concerning a persons sexuality pertains to sex. the word is right fucking there. to tell a woman that shes fired for marrying a woman, but you dont fire a woman who marries a man, that is sex discrimination because it pertaims to the sex of the partner. sex means more than just…

Back in the early 2000s I moved in with a now ex-boyfriend. He lived in a bungalow style house in one of the neighborhoods of a large midwestern city. This happened when I was taking a personal day from work after moving in to finish getting things arranged and unpacked.

My parents thought they were just going to have one chid-me. My mom had my brother the summer before I started fourth grade. I was *relatively* okay with this. My mom had a c-section, and her mom came to stay because my baby brother was freaking huge and my dad had to get back to work.

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I grew up in a small town on the Oregon coast, and it was the summer of my senior year of high school in the late 90s. My best friend and I were asked to house sit for some family friends of ours as they drove their son to college back east. They’d be gone for a whole month—jackpot! The family was one of the wealthier…

This is a tale from the 90's, that long ago time when land lines ruled king of communications. It was during this hypercolor era that I was left alone one evening on my family’s 120 acre plot of land in the Great Piney woods of East Texas. The house that we lived in was a bit ramshackle with the original shack my…

I have a better idea: Let’s not nominate anyone who would make people concerned about their mental or physical fitness regardless of who the current president is.

I see. I apologize then.

Well when you back-stab an ally in Civilization they stay mad at you for a little while but after a few generations they forget about it and you can ally up with them again so they move all their tanks away from your border. Then you invade them again obviously.