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South park the fractured but whole cis gender bullshit
South park the fractured but whole cis gender bullshit






Imagine life here in the US - or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western world - is a massive role playing game, like World of Warcraft except appallingly mundane, where most quests involve the acquisition of money, cell phones and donuts, although not always at the same time. 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?īeing a white guy who likes women, here’s how I would do it:ĭudes. 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.

south park the fractured but whole cis gender bullshit south park the fractured but whole cis gender bullshit

It’s not that the word “privilege” is incorrect, it’s that it’s not their word. 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.

south park the fractured but whole cis gender bullshit

Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is








South park the fractured but whole cis gender bullshit