Butthurt white guys, an Asian virgin and an angry lesbian walk into a bar...

  • Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!



    Go here and give us your nominations!
    Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Tanoomba

Tanoomba

ジョーディーすれいやー
<Banned>
10,170
1,439
Balthazar_sl said:
y.
Checking Privilege Checking - Phoebe Maltz Bovy - The Atlantic
I'm still confused what "checking my privilege" means.
Am I supposed to act dumber to let my lessers identify with me? Less white? What does it mean when people tell me to "check my privilege"? They are saying that I must carry out an action of checking my privilege but I dont even know where to start.
For the record, I am a white male who grew up poor, was a latchkey kid, who eventually put himself through college and made a better future for himself.
I am just confused.
Click to expand...
I'm going to pretend you are asking a serious question and not just trolling here.

First of all, let me start by explaining what being privileged DOESN'T mean:
- It doesn't mean you will never experience hardships or difficulties.
- It doesn't mean you haven't earned the things you worked hard for in your life.
- It doesn't mean you "owe" anything in particular to people you don't know.
- It doesn't mean you're the bad guy.

Put simply, "checking your privilege" means realizing and acknowledging that, as a white male, you have certain privileges that other races and genders simply don't have. That's it.

I get it. You grew up poor and worked to better your own life. You can't stand the idea of people supposedly implying that you didn't earn what you worked for. That's not what "check your privilege" means. I'm not trying to belittle the efforts you made in your life, nor am I implying that you had it easy because you're white and male. However, whether or not you realize it, you still had several advantages afforded to white males. You could go shopping without store clerks eyeing you like a hawk waiting for you to shoplift something. You could take public transit and not feel the eyes of strangers staring and judging your attractiveness regardless of how you dress.

Also, you should be aware that by saying that you equate "acting dumber" with "acting less white", you are being an asshole who gives the whole "check your privilege" crowd plenty of fuel for their ire.

I don't see it any more, but that video of Louis CK is basically Louis CK checking his privilege. He's a professional comedian so it happens to be hilarious, but he's acknowledging that it is advantageous in today's society to be white. If you agree, you have successfully checked your privilege. Congratulations.

Gentlemen, this has been your daily voice of reason. Now bring on the negs!
 
Mist

Mist

REEEEeyore
<Gold Donor>
31,192
23,343
The main privilege of being a white male (who doesn't look poor/like a drug addict) is that you're just met with far less skepticism in just about every possible situation versus how a non-white non-male would be treated. You're automatically assumed to be more competent, on average, than everyone else not in that category. It's not a huge advantage, but it's a small one adds up over and over again through the course of your life until it accumulates into something significant late in your career cycle.

It's not a big fucking deal, but you really have to acknowledge the fact that as a white male you do have to try a little less hard to prove yourself versus everyone else.

EDIT: Unless we're talking about math, then you're fucked and they're picking the slant-eye next to you.
 
Mist

Mist

REEEEeyore
<Gold Donor>
31,192
23,343
kudos_sl said:
The man is holding down the poor jungle babies. If it wasn't for affirmative action and Obamacare they'd probably be out in the streets rioting again like it's the 90s or Katrina.
Click to expand...
It's not the man, it's the fact that they had shitty fucking parents. And if you don't want that cycle to just keep perpetuating itself over and over again, society has to step in and do something to compensate for it.
 
Caeden

Caeden

Golden Baronet of the Realm
7,579
12,532
Seriously? I'm fucking proud and unapologetic that I am a white male STEM. This shit is stupid.
 
Mist

Mist

REEEEeyore
<Gold Donor>
31,192
23,343
Balthazar_sl said:
Am I supposed to act dumber to let my lessers identify with me?
Click to expand...
The VAST majority of people, statistically speaking, fall within a very narrow range of average intelligence. The fact that you think you're smarter than other people generally means that you're not, as dumb people/average people tend to overestimate their own intelligence while smart people tend to underestimate it.
 
Big Phoenix

Big Phoenix

Pronouns: zie/zhem/zer
<Gold Donor>
46,366
98,453
Mist_sl said:
It's not the man, it's the fact that they had shitty fucking parents. And if you don't want that cycle to just keep perpetuating itself over and over again, society has to step in and do something to compensate for it.
Click to expand...
You can't unlearn stupid.
 
Lejina

Lejina

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
<Bronze Donator>
4,670
12,174
I want to hear more about male privilege when it comes to divorce laws and child custody and also about being falsely accused of rape or assault on a female.
 
J

Jais

Trakanon Raider
1,896
535
What a hard road it must be to be non white, non male, getting looked at in public must be terrible. Those brave brave souls.
 
Tanoomba

Tanoomba

ジョーディーすれいやー
<Banned>
10,170
1,439
Lejina_sl said:
I want to hear more about male privilege when it comes to divorce laws and child custody and also about being falsely accused of rape or assault on a female.
Click to expand...
As well you should. If you did learn more, you'd know that feminism (which is often considered to be the entity pushing the "male privilege" agenda) is against favoring the mother in custody cases "just because", and that they acknowledge that false rape accusations are awful and do nothing to help women in society.
 
Ridas

Ridas

Pay to play forum
2,878
4,143
Tanoomba, why do you think, that women never judge the attractivness of a stranger? They do the same fucking thing and talk about your ugly ass aswell. It always baffled me, that there is this big assumed distinction between the genders.
 
Voyce

Voyce

Shit Lord Supreme
<Donor>
8,192
29,011
Sweet OK so let's draw up teams I'll be team Captain and so can Toonamba; Toonamba you can have first pick, it's my privilege.
 
Haus

Haus

<Silver Donator>
12,701
49,323
I just wanted to drop by and let everybody know I took the time today to check my privilege, and you know what?

It still works.. just fine...

So nobody needs to worry about me.

home93.jpg
 
Lejina

Lejina

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
<Bronze Donator>
4,670
12,174
Tanoomba_sl said:
As well you should. If you did learn more, you'd know that feminism (which is often considered to be the entity pushing the "male privilege" agenda) is against favoring the mother in custody cases "just because", and that they acknowledge that false rape accusations are awful and do nothing to help women in society.
Click to expand...
So what you're saying is that women should also check their privilege?

Funny how we never hear that one.
 
T

Tom Lightner

Molten Core Raider
55
84
I always find this one funny too. Seems everything has a label, a PC label at that, as if the previous labels weren't good enough. To understand it I think it's best to look at it for what it is, when we label stuff like a box of a dozen donuts, 87 octane gasoline, 32oz Pepsi... It is so we can easy & quickly identify it, categorize it and make a judgment based on what we know about it and take whatever action, make whatever decision, etc. is required and move on. Here is where this all gets exciting tho, so it's ok for us (as humans btw) to do these things in everyday life, some call it progress actually, yet when it comes to doing this to our fellow humans it is all of a sudden this huge bad negative issue! LOL to me it is stupid. I could go on further but I'm sorta tired now and need some salsa, btw I ain't white. But anyways my bro said it best once, he goes; "Look the reason there's stereotypes is cuz that shit is true!" on a side note my grampa or maybe it was my football coach, ahh oh well one of em said when I would get discouraged; "Hope in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first." don't ask me what the hell all this means, but it is probably a way more important topic to be had.
 
Voyce

Voyce

Shit Lord Supreme
<Donor>
8,192
29,011
Ridas_sl said:
Tanoomba, why do you think, that women never judge the attractivness of a stranger? They do the same fucking thing and talk about your ugly ass aswell. It always baffled me, that there is this big assumed distinction between the genders.
Click to expand...
I always like how Jerle told men to stop rating female attractiveness.

rrr_img_66857.jpg
 
Pumpkin Thief

Pumpkin Thief

Bronze Baronet of the Realm
1,488
13,940
Tanoomba, would you recommend non-whites check their double standard privileges?

Also, pizza crust should always be super thin and slightly crisp, fuckers.
 
Lejina

Lejina

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
<Bronze Donator>
4,670
12,174
Voyce_sl said:
I always like how Jerle told men to stop rating female attractiveness.
Click to expand...
He's on there strictly because of his personality dude. If Chris Farley was still alive, he would have been the one on the magazine I'm sure.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.