Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I hear people talking about appearance, intelligence and physical abilities all the time, and I don't hear anyone saying, "That may be, but let's discuss racial and patriarchal privilege." Maybe people don't want to have a conversation about racial and patriarchal privilege (fun as that sounds) hijacked and rebooted into a conversation about something else?

If I said, People want to talk about cars, but they don't want to get into mass transit, which is more likely: (a) when other people are talking about their cars they get tired of me explaining which buses I take in my commute, or (b) there is widespread public opposition to mass transit? I'm going with (a).



Not sure what you mean by that. People are using the words to try to define real, concrete things that they see and experience in the actual word, but you seem to understand them as talking about conceptual categories. Maybe what they're saying isn't concrete or real to you?

1. This intentional small-ball is too transparent.

2. I'm kind of insulted by the last paragraph. You barely even tried to hide the hook.