privilege as a meme

cleric plz

no dwarf?!

that's a race not a class *tuts furiously*

maybe j. hasn't played since 1st edition

maybe you are all just false and i am kvlt

i'm just saying you can't just conflate race and class

a+

well played chimp

Is "social justice warrior" primarily a sincere self-label or primarily a mocking label? It's pretty awful.

mocking

quickly gaining traction in the right wing trollscape

ime it was originally a mocking label that has evolved into a reclaimed self-label

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=social%20justice%20warrior

mocking

it's our generation's "cause heads"

i just figured out it's quite old now (urban dictionary from 2011) but for whatever reason it's popped up on my radar a lot more recently

ime it was originally a mocking label that has evolved into a reclaimed self-label

― Mordy, Monday, October 6, 2014 8:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^this, actually

have they completely reclaimed it yet?

because i still see it used mockingly, a lot

i mean i dont think its possible to completely eradicate mockery through reclamation

it was used sparingly back in 09/10 (earliest i saw it anyway) as a sincere self-descriptor

the "SJW" abbreviation was mocking from the beginning

and tbh any reclamation is still 100% snark/sarcasm like the image above, anyone who uses it as a serious descriptor is #notyourshield

roxy probably otm but it's a step in the right direction imo

ultimately it'll be of limited value/relevance to detractors and nobody will rly use it any more

idk tho

redditors and 4channers and... breitbart.com?? now use the term as a serious non-outright-mocking classification and seem to be under the impression that people still sincerely self-identify as SJW so i'm not sure what good "reclamation" will do outside of it being funny

tumblr shot first

social justice warriors come out to plaaaayaa

really?

http://www.vogue.com/2208057/leaving-new-york-city-country-life-woodstock/

DO TELL GOOD SIR

feel like SJW was initially hardcore tumblr marxist above-it-all types making fun of sensitive would-be activists?? can't prove this but I feel like that was the sphere I first saw it in

have def heard anti-SJW rhetoric from hardline marxists who usually have a 'safe space anecdote' or two up their sleeve

At the risk of sounding appalingly pretentious...

all articles on the nyt quiddities thread should start like this from now on

MODS

He risked it. It happened. He should have taken better precautions.

The awl published a v interesting piece on the history of problematic recently

yeah SJW is used in a clannish, wagon-circling way by online neocons in relation to #gamergate to describe Those Awful People Who Criticized Our Games (i.e. the Zoe Quinn & Anita Sarkeesian stalking MRA troll-crew from 4chan and their stooges, enablers and exploiters)

it's weird to do a Twitter search for #gamergate because the gamer bros have created all these decoy/Catfish "female gamer" twitter identities who tow their party line and mouth the slogans, and there's all this high-minded/laughable invocation of how it's all about "standards in gaming journalism", but you can't really tell who's legit and who's a sockpuppet anymore

sad that for some people the idea of actually believing in furthering the cause of social justice is itself laughable (and all on behalf of the noble calling of shooting zombies in digital labyrinths / running over prostitutes in GTA5 etc.)

'social justice warrior' for real sounds like the best title ever

Yeah I understand it started as a derogatory term but they probably could have chosen a meaner sounding epithet?

social justice dragon

social justice weiner

if ever the day happens when I could have a business card that says

my name
social justice warrior

I will think 'I have truly made it'
I will cry some joyful tears

but you can't really tell who's legit and who's a sockpuppet anymore

http://unrealitymag.bcmediagroup.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/they_live_3.jpg

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/10/grayson-perry-rise-and-fall-default-man

I like the cover.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bza2okyCEAA_FYc.jpg

All the men I know are passing that link round going "wow, Grayson Perry is so amazing, this is mind-blowing stuff!"

And all the women I know are rolling their eyes and going "Grayson Perry repeats a bunch of stuff that feminists have been saying since the days of bell hooks, and now suddenly a successful white-male luvvy with a Turner Prize says it and they can hear it as if for the first time? Really?"

I mean, good on him for saying it in a ~tone~ you all can finally hear, but please, don't expect applause or feminist cookies.

I did love that comment (I know, I know..) that had somebody claiming that "Default Man" was actually created (or perpetuated) by all those Trophy Wives....

saw that article on twitter due to numerous women praising and RT'ing it

Oh, I'm sure you have! But it's funny that way, when I see people say "I've seen tons of women / black people / queer ppl etc retweeting this piece" it says quite a lot about the friends that you have self selected.

I'm sure the article is fine, and "Important" and worthy and all that.

But it's just that same thing again. Like what happened on (whichever one of the 8 billion "music journalism sucks" threads we have going at any time) earlier, like where the {straight, white male with a job at a national newspaper} was complaining of thinkpiece fatigue of having to read so many pieces about Miley-Rhianna-Lilly-Lorde-Beyonce-Whatever. But then he goes, "oh, wait, no, there was a good piece I read on it..." and just funnily enough, he picks out to laud the one piece by DL, y'know, the {straight, white male with a job at that national newspaper} and praises it for, I dunno, it was one of those weaselly words like "reportage" or something which is basically a synonym for "Objective" like, yes, it's funny, that. You have to have the straight white man with the same Background as you explain the issues before it stops being ~just noise~ and useless and starts being "Proper Reporting" and "Objective" and all that.

Greyson Perry said a thing. I'm sure it's great.

I can pretty easily mentally separate the friends I have on soc med who are likely to have already been having conversations about various things from the ones who will hear them from a mainstream outlet and repost them like the sun just came up. It's fine, it's what we want, right? For even suburban normals to care about equality issues? I'm usually just glad SOMETHING reaches the rah rah gun rights Middle America part of my fb feed when that happens.

The OH A MAN SAID SOMETHING ish is real though.