The Privilege Tournament
 

I saw this story on Gawker today, and you know that I thought about GC. It's a March Madness style tournament for Race, Sexuality, Gender, Disability, etc.

Enjoy!

http://gawker.com/the-privilege-tournament-1377171054

Plushies v. Gay in the opening round = fail. It's always those mid-seeds where you can still see some huge mismatches. Look for plushies to make a deep run in this tournament.

Interesting. For some of those items, it depends. For example, Hindus have more privilege than Atheists based on population size, power, and acceptability in certain societies. Athiests have more privilege than Hindus in societies in which Atheists (who are predominantly white men of a particular age range and socioeconomic status) are more able to hide the fact that they are atheist; or in subcultures in which being atheist is interpreted as being more intelligent and nonconformist.

Hindu is a tough one. A Hindu in, say, Princeton, NJ, is going to (generally) have a lot more privilege than your average Hindu in India.

I am particularly partial to the allergies bracket.

My cat allergies could take any nut allergy, any day of the week. My Epi Pen fears no allergy.

Ok, I have to admit I had to Google Cisgender and Hijra.

One small gripe though, I don't see Latino/Hispanics as being less privileged in this country than South Asians, especially when you consider American born white hispanics. Or was that category supposed to be Guatemalan VS Bangladeshi?

I don't know what a couple of these mean and several terms I've never even heard.

Puts on research hat/

I wonder where the respondents are answering from. I answered from a US standpoint, but as said above, many of these were "it depends." Muslim was "in the lead" above Protestants, but that obviously wouldn't be the case in a majority-Muslim country.

Clearly, this wasn't scientific at all, but we all know several people will see the final results and treat it like dogma (dogma -- was that privileged of me? :p)

/research hat

ETA: I wasn't sure about only one term (Hijra), but after Googling, I realized that I was familiar with them (just not by name). Yay me.

I thought it was strange that they combined AIDS with Cancer victim and pitted them against the deaf as if someone with AIDS has the same amount of privilege as someone with Cancer. I think that's far from accurate.

I thought that was strange, too, but I made the assumption that they were trying to make it into "disease vs disability/disorder" (if that makes sense)

Oh, okay. Disease vs disability does make sense. I think others may have gotten tripped up on that one too. The results were a mixed bag.

In 'Murica, we call em trannies.