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beowabbit ([personal profile] beowabbit) wrote2012-05-18 11:24 am
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From John Scalzi, an interesting gamer analogy for straight white male privilege. Thanks to a couple friends on Facebook for calling my attention to his post.

[identity profile] chienne-folle.livejournal.com 2012-05-18 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
What a wonderful metaphor! I'd stopped reading Scalzi, but I may need to start again. Thanks for calling our attention to this.

[identity profile] likethewatch.livejournal.com 2012-05-22 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
One of my writers brought that essay to my attention. She felt it didn't address enough privileges, particularly socioeconomic class: http://goodmenproject.com/good-feed-blog/privilege-the-video-game-version-1-1/