Growf. Formatting fail. Take two: Okay, I accept that my privilege in this area is showing. I don't want that so I'm asking for your help because I really want to be sensitive to your situation. How can we show that the questioning we get is different? How can we show that being oppressed by the same words by the same people has a different impact for you than it has for me?
Given the responses I've seen from other queer/poly/trans/whatever ASD folk in the blogosphere, I think it's clear enough.
I'll give you that the wording is probably a bit cumbersome for neurotypical readers (it seems to flow more naturally for aspie-types), but at most I'd change the order of the existing words to clear that up.
I think that's important. Remember that this privilege checklist is aimed at we poor privileged neurotypical types and we don't see things the way you do. What's clear for you is confusing for me in this case. Can we clear it up? Remember that to me the distinction is vague and it's me and people like me whom you want to empathise with your situation. That's the point of a privilege checklist, yes? How can we explain it so the distinction is clearer?
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Date: 2009-07-30 05:16 (UTC)From:Okay, I accept that my privilege in this area is showing. I don't want that so I'm asking for your help because I really want to be sensitive to your situation. How can we show that the questioning we get is different? How can we show that being oppressed by the same words by the same people has a different impact for you than it has for me?
Given the responses I've seen from other queer/poly/trans/whatever ASD folk in the blogosphere, I think it's clear enough.
I'll give you that the wording is probably a bit cumbersome for neurotypical readers (it seems to flow more naturally for aspie-types), but at most I'd change the order of the existing words to clear that up.
I think that's important. Remember that this privilege checklist is aimed at we
poorprivileged neurotypical types and we don't see things the way you do. What's clear for you is confusing for me in this case. Can we clear it up? Remember that to me the distinction is vague and it's me and people like me whom you want to empathise with your situation. That's the point of a privilege checklist, yes? How can we explain it so the distinction is clearer?