Steve Spillman

kottke.org: Straight White Male, the game of life's lowest difficulty setting →

rickwebb:

jkottke:

Using a video game metaphor, John Scalzi explains straight white male privilege for those straight white males who get hung up on the word “privilege”.

Dudes. Imagine life here in the US — or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western world — is a massive role playing game, like World of…

Not to pick a fight, but I’d add healthy, educated and wealthy to the list. We could then have a nice debate about which three of the six attributes we’d rather start with. I’d choose my health and education before any of the other attributes. Not sure about the rest. 

Interesting idea, but you have some say in your health, wealth and education — the same can’t be said for gender, race, or sexual orientation. In fact, the latter three often affect your access to the former.

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    Rafer sez: @rickwebb Healthy, Wealthy, and Educated are embarrassingly tightly correlated with Straight White Male. Your...

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    Interesting idea, but you have some say in your health, wealth and education — the same can’t be said for gender, race,...

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    Videogame metaphors = instant reblog.

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