Scalzi wrote a great essay in 2012, asserting that straight white male is the equivalent of the easy mode setting on a computer game. The obverse, lesbian, black, female would be the hard mode, only winnable by the best players.
Tuesday, Chicago elected a lesbian, black, female, easily beating the straight black female. (Think about how awesome it was that both candidates were black and female)
Obama in nov 2008 showed us that there WAS HOPE. And anything could happen. And if you told me THEN, that Lightfoot would win in 2019, we would have laughed at you.
DAMN proud of my city.
YES, OF COURSE, we could easily extend the raking to be:
Easiest: Straight, white, rich, able-bodied, cis-male
Hardest: Lesbian, black, poor, disabled, trans-female
He mentions in the article that rich-poor was the lesser then the three that he listed. And would have included cis/trans if he wrote it today.
Whoops, went back and remembered to add abled/disabled.
NO, you can’t shame me for leaving out the next challenges.
The list is infinite and endless, you get the point, or you are ...
Things that could be added
Christian vs non-Christian
Religious vs atheist
Tall vs short
Fit vs fat
Athletic vs dork
Brainy vs average
THIS is the definition of white privilege ... that your being WHITE, Christian, straight, male ... made everything easier for you. (If you are literally too stupid to know the difference between easier and easy, don’t worry, I will delete your comment and block you. Forever.)
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