@benx I can’t believe you and so many others have such a hard time understanding this.

"puzzled as to why you might not be aware of the differences"

You are judging me based on nothing but your notions of who I might be and a few hundred lines of text. It is repugnant.

You have no idea who I am, not my race (bullshit concepts can have limited utility), not my gender, nor my gender expression, not my age, or nationality, or ethnic heritage, or education. None of it. Maybe a cursory web search to validate your opinion. You read my blog. That’s enough, surely. I say all kinds of odd things, shouldn’t be too difficult to deliver a little embarrassment bonbon to your hungry acolytes. "Can you believe he said this....!!"

You are diminishing everyones experience by saying things like this:

"...I can think of so many examples of how everyday life is harder for women and people of colour..."

Harder than your life? Harder than mine? There is way too much variability in the human experience for this urgent generalization horse-shit to hold any water except in the most refined and well ventilated salons. Look at us helping the savages.

Most have probably written me off long before this post, and probably before this paragraph, and as much as I hate to appear thirsty to get my street cred morality passport stamped by impatient whiny self-appointed protectors of the borders of truth, I can say the following:

Because of the particular facts of who I am, the physical truth of my existence, and the sort of activities I’ve gotten into over the years, I have seen both sides of these equations, in real actual in this moment right fucking now situations, and it is ugly all around. Racism, sexism, ageism, gender-ism, nationalism, all of it. It all corrupts outward and eventually produces threats of violence and then actual violence. They are the kind of ideas that consume all the thought around them.

And they all, without exception, stem from the misuse of language, whether through ineptitude or malice.

And that’s why I’m such a c_nt about it.