Thursday, September 15, 2016

"Daily Effects of White Privilege" Quiz

In many ways, the quiz seemed to assume that the respondent was a straight, cis dude.  (This is shorthand.  I am not including other axes of oppression because those were the ones I noticed being relevant.)  For the most part, all of the questions were very explicitly about race and race alone, but on others, they were affected by gender or sexual/romantic orientation.  For example, with number five, "I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed," that's blatantly false for all women, among others.  I've been catcalled.  I've known girls who were followed from train stations or stores.  And because there seems to be this implicit assumption, I personally felt kind of invisible.  The point of the quiz is great, but it could definitely use more refinement.

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