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Re:Being alone by spindritf on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @03:19PM (#6636740)
Oh, good. It's not just me.

> Preface: As a white, heterosexual, cis, male, I’m granted, from birth, an extraordinary amount of privilege

This is crazy, intellectually debilitating blabber. And just wrong on a blog[1].

We already allowed lawyers and CYA politicians to slap warning labels on everything (despite the fact that it's counter-productive[2]). Are we now going to put disclaimers on private blogs?

Or is it like a weird way to brag? "I'm not affected by any common affliction." (You forgot "able-bodied" BTW which is much more important that those other things.) Better yet, "I, being of sound mind and body do hereby publish this blogpost."

[1] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/against-disclai.html

[2] http://pss.sagepub.com/content/24/9/1842

Re:Being alone by md224 on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @03:42PM (#6636924)
> This is crazy, intellectually debilitating blabber.

Would you care to elaborate on what's crazy and intellectually debilitating about the sentence you quoted? I know people that would agree completely with that sentence, so I'd be curious to hear your perspective and why you feel it's wrong.

Re:Being alone by thwest on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @04:22PM (#6637173)
Perhaps the concepts of gender and race are so foreign that it is literally difficult to think about and therefore "debilitating".
Re:Being alone by makomk on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @10:15AM (#6640635)
He also completely failed to mention mental health issues, which was the more glaring omission for me.