“I do find it empowering to make jokes about disliking cis people” One of the many reasons I’m uncomfortable with the whole ‘understand your privilege’ thing is this. It’s so often misused as some kind of get-out-of-jail-free card. I suppose if anyone else excused their discriminatory behavior by explaining that they find it empowering it would be disgusting.  But here, a minority, and, we’ve all been told it, understand your privilege.  As a ‘non-minority’ I have to respect what’s being said here.  It’s a step beyond the whole, ‘if someone tells you they’re offended, and they’re in a minority, and you’re not, then what you’ve done/said is offensive and you need to take it back’.  It is, in fact, the same sentence, only I’m being told something’s not offensive, or that it doesn’t matter if it is or not, because, just by virtue of existing as I do, I matter a little less, because what have I got to complain about compared to this person? What’s this power I have? Does anyone know what subjectivity is?  The increased popularity of things like sexuality and gender awareness just seems to have given us more boxes to divide ourselves into and fight each other over.  I’m not interested.  It’s as though nobody understands that by forcing us to keep definitions on ourselves we’re enforcing the big walls between us.   I’m frequently asked, via lengthy tumblr posts about gender and race, to remember exactly which camp I’m in and how that affects me.  How that affects everybody else, and to not, under any circumstances, forget what I am, in regard to the labels that can be applied to me.   White, cis, whatever, I have to keep all of this somewhere near the front of my mind and it will eventually tackle the issues we have.  The issues we have, generally, revolving around the bizarre and often negative separation and categorization of human beings using words.   Just words. Like boy or trans or blue eyed or two-armed or French or pale or unintelligent or young or pretty or table or house or tree or love. Who here has some concept of what words are, how they imply nothing but what you want them to?  If you keep and hold some meaning to it then meaning is there for you, if you throw that meaning away then it’s gone. I’m not very articulate, here.  I’m angry, actually. Like she said, though, hate breeds hate. What’s the point in this? 

“I do find it empowering to make jokes about disliking cis people” One of the many reasons I’m uncomfortable with the whole ‘understand your privilege’ thing is this. It’s so often misused as some kind of get-out-of-jail-free card.

I suppose if anyone else excused their discriminatory behavior by explaining that they find it empowering it would be disgusting.  But here, a minority, and, we’ve all been told it, understand your privilege.  As a ‘non-minority’ I have to respect what’s being said here.  It’s a step beyond the whole, ‘if someone tells you they’re offended, and they’re in a minority, and you’re not, then what you’ve done/said is offensive and you need to take it back’.  It is, in fact, the same sentence, only I’m being told something’s not offensive, or that it doesn’t matter if it is or not, because, just by virtue of existing as I do, I matter a little less, because what have I got to complain about compared to this person?

What’s this power I have?

Does anyone know what subjectivity is?  The increased popularity of things like sexuality and gender awareness just seems to have given us more boxes to divide ourselves into and fight each other over.  I’m not interested. 

It’s as though nobody understands that by forcing us to keep definitions on ourselves we’re enforcing the big walls between us.  

I’m frequently asked, via lengthy tumblr posts about gender and race, to remember exactly which camp I’m in and how that affects me.  How that affects everybody else, and to not, under any circumstances, forget what I am, in regard to the labels that can be applied to me.   White, cis, whatever, I have to keep all of this somewhere near the front of my mind and it will eventually tackle the issues we have.  The issues we have, generally, revolving around the bizarre and often negative separation and categorization of human beings using words.  

Just words.

Like boy or trans or blue eyed or two-armed or French or pale or unintelligent or young or pretty or table or house or tree or love.

Who here has some concept of what words are, how they imply nothing but what you want them to?  If you keep and hold some meaning to it then meaning is there for you, if you throw that meaning away then it’s gone.

I’m not very articulate, here.  I’m angry, actually.

Like she said, though, hate breeds hate.

What’s the point in this? 

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