tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-21:106066 ravan ravan 2010-10-19T03:12:51Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-21:106066:533185 2010-10-19T03:12:51Z 2010-10-19T03:12:51Z calm public 0 <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://ladyqkat.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://ladyqkat.livejournal.com/'><b>ladyqkat</b></a></span> pointed me at <a href="http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/10/18/things-i-dont-have-to-think-about-today/">Things I Don’t Have to Think About Today</a> by John Scalzi. He very nicely touched on racial, ethnic, religious, gender, sexual orientation, ablism, and other privileges that those who have them don't ever think about. There are more good ones in the comments.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ravan&ditemid=533185" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-21:106066:531596 2010-09-30T18:38:55Z 2010-09-30T18:57:52Z sad public 2 I'm glad I never lived in the dorms. Some days my fellow humans make me cry... <br /><br /><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/suicide-rutgers-university-freshman-tyler-clementi-stuns-veteran/story?id=11763784">Rutgers, Friends and Family of Tyler Clementi Mourn Suicide</a><br /><br /><a href="http://rm.livejournal.com/1933522.html">just because I didn't kill myself, doesn't mean I didn't feel like I was dying</a><br /><br />This type of shit is unusual in its absence, not in its presence. It's the bullying that all gay, bi and trans kids go through, even now. More if they're fat and/or geek - it's additive, not either/or.<br /><br />Most turn it inward. Many die by their own hand. Some turn it outward.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ravan&ditemid=531596" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-21:106066:529280 2010-09-13T01:41:32Z 2010-09-13T01:41:32Z calm public 1 <a href="http://ebonypearl.livejournal.com/808533.html">Privilege, Not Persecution</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ravan&ditemid=529280" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments