I’m making a personal vow (yet again - maybe it’ll stick this time) to cease and desist reading all blogs that try to make you (general “you”) feel guilty about saying there are any problems in your life, if you’re not living in a cardboard box and selling your children for beans. Or whatever it is. (And usually living in another country, because certainly we don’t have any real problems here, and if people aren’t DYING DYING DYING then it’s not all that bad, now is it.)
Also, certain blogs where the word “privilege” is used as an accusation, a means of silencing.
And, of course, as usual, the blogs that deny that such a thing as privilege even exists - the ones that make me feel like I have a to put in a disclaimer every time I write a sentence like the one above, because they’re such amazing ASSHOLES and that is not what I’m talking about. But then, I don’t actually need a new vow for them, because I stopped reading them years ago - it’s the others that are a problem for me.
Race trumps gender… gender trumps race… this -ism is worse than that -ism… I’m sick of it having to be a fucking CONTEST! That’s not what intersectionality is!
The annoyance level, it is high.
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