Tag: privilege

Talk-o-Meter shows, how much everybody is talking.

Talk-o-Meter shows, how much everybody is talking.

There are friends, colleagues or even partners who do not notice it, when they dominate others in a conversation. They just talk too much. A little iPhone app helps. The iPhone is placed between two people having a conversation and learns to separate the two voices. At intervals of 1, 2 or 5 minutes you see different lengths of red and blue bars that show what percentage of time each speaker was talking. Nobody has to be unpleasantly exhorted – from time to time everyone will have a cursory glance at the Talk-o-Meter and adapt if he is talking too much. Gentle biofeedback works.

Tiger Beatdown CHRONICLES OF MANSPLAINING: Professor Feminism and the Deleted Comments of Doom

Tiger Beatdown CHRONICLES OF MANSPLAINING: Professor Feminism and the Deleted Comments of Doom

Long sarcastic rant, kind of haha, whatever. Bookmarking for naming this phenomenon: You bitch, I have a Rolls Roycewow. For years my sweetie and I have called this phenomenon Bitch, I was just trying to give you a compliment.”

Some Basic Racist Ideas and some Rebuttals, & Why We Exist | Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture

Some Basic Racist Ideas and some Rebuttals, & Why We Exist | Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture

“The resistance Jessica got is so standard that we can categorise it into three, typical responses that entitled folks make when called out for their privilege. So here, organised for your reading ease…”

Zuky: The Greatest Clich: The Unexamined Propaganda of “Political Correctness”

Zuky: The Greatest Clich: The Unexamined Propaganda of “Political Correctness”

‘Underlying every complaint of “PC” is the absurd notion that members of dominant mainstream society have been victimized by an arbitrarily hypersensitive prohibition against linguistic and cultural constructions that are considered historical manifestations of bigotry. ‘