Playing with privilege: the invisible benefits of gaming while male

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1. I like this

Showing how the original list can be modified to point out privilege, is an excellent idea. Privilege is apparently, a difficult concept for many people, when it's race or gender.

It's NOT interestingly enough, a difficult concept when it comes to class or wealth. The whole 1% movement is based on wealthy privilege, yet many of those who rail against inequities in economics systems, refuse to see it in gender or race. This is something that has baffled me for some time-- although it shouldn't, not really.

Gamers, the ones I know, seem to be 'nice guys' so when this came to my attention a while back, again I was baffled, and again, I shouldn't have been. Hearing the stories of women games breaking into the boys room and what they encountered just shows how insidious it all is. How sexism and racism is threaded into the culture of our society, until it considered a 'norm'

That's not to say we haven't improved, but we have a very long way to go.