Eater of Trees

Posts Tagged ‘race

In which Emily dissects an employment questionaire thing

Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: June 17, 2011

(crossposted on tumblr) So anyway, Cabbage was just applying for a job and one of the steps prior to getting an interview was like… fill out this questionaire where you say you’re extroverted and organized and have no disabilities. I maaaay have taken down the problematic questions.  (There were about fifty questions total, problematic and [...]

AAAAARRRGGGGH

Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: January 24, 2011

[crossposted from my tumblr] I am colorblind.  I see reds at a slightly reduced intensity compared to everyone else, especially when they’re mixed with other colors. People who claim to not see race are privilege denying asshats.  However, (usually) they can see all colors normally.  Therefore they are not colorblind. (Except obviously when they are) [...]

Invocations of Realism to Defend Bigoted Fantasy

Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: January 6, 2011

(I’m focusing mostly on video games and fantasy here, but the general ideas definitely appear elsewhere in speculative fiction, and moreso in other media.  I’m just focusing on that combination because that’s where I’ve seen it the most lately, and also because fantasy video games seem to have not gotten passed making clones of Dungeons [...]


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