i'm not sure if it's a "takedown" so much as it's just...having a bit of fun. he's basically saying "you know how people always say 'what is this the privilege olympics??' well what if we made...the privilege march madness?" i mean people who spend a lot of time online arguing about this kind of stuff are well within their rights to roll their eyes when a (presumably straight white) man decides it's time for a little good-natured onion-esque satire, but it's pretty clear that nolan is on the side of the tumblr peeps, the dude isn't a mens rights activist or something. i mean the whole thing is basically a ward sutton cartoon, no?
(tbh this is why i think actually *running* the tournament was maybe not the best idea, i mean the point was made, we all had a funny, not sure what finding a "winner", even if it's tongue-in-cheek, really adds to the joke (although i have to be honest i was rooting for peanut allergy to win just for the lols))
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 2 October 2013 04:24 (ten years ago) link
gawker totally dated a black chick once too
― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Wednesday, October 2, 2013 12:21 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
"web sites are people too, my friends"
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 2 October 2013 04:26 (ten years ago) link
"having a bit of fun" isn't that on the white priv bingo card?
― Dan I., Sunday, 6 October 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
I'm usually a big Ham Nolan fan though
― Dan I., Sunday, 6 October 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
didnt get my bingo cards to whom does one complain
― Victims’ tears deter rodent paedophiles (darraghmac), Monday, 7 October 2013 00:58 (ten years ago) link
http://shitrichcollegekidssay.tumblr.com/
― Mordy , Wednesday, 30 October 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
http://tedmosbyisnotajerk.tumblr.com/post/66643775673/if-anyone-ever-asks-me-what-tumblr-is-im-gonna
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
haha
― twist boat veterans for stability (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
http://everydayfeminism.com/2013/10/lets-talk-about-thin-privilege/
― Mordy , Thursday, 21 November 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
so what'd you think was remarkable about that post Mordy
― eris bueller (lukas), Thursday, 21 November 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
just tracking the expansive use of 'privilege' as a meme
― Mordy , Thursday, 21 November 2013 15:26 (ten years ago) link
no matter your race, gender or sexuality, we all share human privilege. people cannot understand what it is like to be an animal that is captive, bred and slaughtered on an industrial scale. which isn't to say you should feel guilty for being born a human, but that you should check your privilege when it comes to animals who even lack the articulation to express their own alienation.
― Mordy , Thursday, 21 November 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
that seems fair to me!
― max, Thursday, 21 November 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
Wow I am so unbelievably sorry that I asked
― eris bueller (lukas), Thursday, 21 November 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
http://thedailybanter.com/2013/11/salons-sexiest-men-of-2013-list-is-cisexist/
"Sam Doloncot" is a fake byline Chez Pazienza uses to troll libs
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 November 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
mordy have you never encountered anthropocentrism
welcome
― creating an ilHOOSion usic sight and sound (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 21 November 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413F11M39NL._SY344_PJlook-inside-v2,TopRight,1,0_SH20_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― creating an ilHOOSion usic sight and sound (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 21 November 2013 20:01 (ten years ago) link
Our relationship with plants, otoh, is merely ironic.
― Aimless, Thursday, 21 November 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
Dude, I *swear* my dog is capable of expressing alienation. Whatever you think of animal rights, being mindful of animal feelings fosters empathy in a way political text can't.
― Sweetfrosti (I M Losted), Thursday, 21 November 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link
I'm sure caring for plants makes the world a more just place in some way, too!
― Sweetfrosti (I M Losted), Thursday, 21 November 2013 21:44 (ten years ago) link
Like any liberal arts-educated freelance writer and activist from San Francisco who values his progressive culture and identity, I’m a very strong supporter of Salon.com.
― twist boat veterans for stability (k3vin k.), Thursday, 21 November 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
Aimless otm
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 21 November 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
http://www.marriedtothesea.com/111413/sand-privilege.gif
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Thursday, 28 November 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
lol at the aveda members club name
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3685/11173016323_2afef0c401.jpg
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 2 December 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Pure Privilege Member Numberlololol
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 2 December 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
that is amazing and I just stole it for Twitter
― deX! (DJP), Monday, 2 December 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
uh ohcould you not use that link? you're welcome to have the img just don't link it to my flickr page pls!
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 2 December 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah just changed that
― deX! (DJP), Monday, 2 December 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
thanks!
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 2 December 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
also pls enter your Pure Privilege Member Number for surprise gifts and news about exclusive member offers
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 2 December 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0hFnOGnq4
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 2 December 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
H is doing a doctorate in ed and has been telling me a lot about how much her professors emphasize "positionality" these days. I was reading her case study/research paper thing recently and there was this long sort of hemmy-hawy sounding paragraph listing all the ways in which her various privileges and relationships to the students could influence the outcomes and her interpretations of them, and she was like "yeah, this is what we're supposed to do."
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 2 December 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
that seems pretty reasonable tbh
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 3 December 2013 01:40 (ten years ago) link
memetic
― Phoebe (color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link
ed phds
― Mordy , Tuesday, 3 December 2013 02:52 (ten years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/05/seven_questions_for_thirty_nine_questions_for_white_people_author_naima_lowe/
― Mordy , Friday, 6 December 2013 04:55 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbHUwM9CQAAPj4g.jpg
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 09:40 (ten years ago) link
hello rich lady in fishnet bodystocking
― New York City Garden(?) (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 11:23 (ten years ago) link
do u like anggry birds?
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
Prior to sentencing, a psychologist called by the defense, Dr. G. Dick Miller, testified that Ethan Couch's life could be salvaged with one to two years' treatment and no contact with his parents. ... Miller said Couch's parents gave him "freedoms no young person should have." He called Couch a product of "affluenza," where his family felt that wealth bought privilege and there was no rational link between behavior and consequences.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/12/12/ethan_couch_affluenza_texas_teen_spared_prison_time_in_deadly_drunk_driving.html
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 12 December 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
where his family felt that wealth bought privilege and there was no rational link between behavior and consequences.
well, the judge just proved this
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 13 December 2013 06:00 (ten years ago) link
check your privilege.... BEFORE IT KILLS
― mitch hedberg and kevin hart (sleepingbag), Friday, 13 December 2013 07:23 (ten years ago) link
cmon guys this kid has a life full of opportunity ahead of him, you want to destroy that just cos he ran down some schmucks while hopped up and playing his own real life game of GTA IV?
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 13 December 2013 10:02 (ten years ago) link
Does sound as if he would have been better off being raised by wolves though. Hopefully the rehabilitation works out and the families of the victims find a way to ruin his parents through the civil courts.
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Friday, 13 December 2013 10:19 (ten years ago) link
it's like the Rake's Progress where the rake gets off at the end and lives happily ever after
― wee knights of the round table (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 December 2013 11:05 (ten years ago) link
or possibly more like if a quadruple murderer said "soz" and got off
― wee knights of the round table (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 December 2013 11:06 (ten years ago) link
"This kid has been in a system that’s sick," Miller said. "If he goes to jail, that’s just another sick system."
I think that's probably/possibly true. It's also true of most of the other kids ever convicted of crimes, who don't duck 20-year sentences but go on to have their lives ended or ruined by their punishment.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Friday, 13 December 2013 13:33 (ten years ago) link
challops i know but i don't think this kid was ever gonna achieve 'great things'
― confused subconscious U2 association (bernard snowy), Friday, 13 December 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
nobody said great things i don't know why i scare-quoted it
possibly i just resent minors for their 'youth privilege' idk
― confused subconscious U2 association (bernard snowy), Friday, 13 December 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link