We Should Also Stop Saying Anyone Who Has The Power To Do Absolutely Anything Has Privilege, Because

We should also stop saying anyone who has the power to do absolutely anything has privilege, because if something is a basic right then everyone should have the power to do that thing.

Including protest unfair working conditions by refusing to comply with unfair and exploitative expectations.

If you don't have access to a basic right, then the issue isn't someone else who does. The issue is that you don't.

“the arts and sciences are completely separate fields that should be pitted against each other” the overlap of the arts and sciences make up our entire perceivable reality they r fucking on the couch

Sometimes it can be very freeing to realize that no matter how weird you are about a thing, there is almost certainly someone else in the world who is much much weirder about a different thing, possibly even a different thing that you are conversely pretty normal about.

We're all weirdos, when normal is measured by someone else's standards.

”okay but are you normal about-“ no. I’m an insane pervert.

Counterpoint: I get a lot more out of movies/tv shows/etc when I actively engage with watching them vs. when I'm just staring at a screen like a passive blob.

I've also had times reading written work while my mind was drifting, only to realize that my eyes may have been scrolling over the page but none of the words actually processed into my memory.

Reading is a different type of engagement, but that doesn't mean watching a story on tv is automatically more passive.

“Besides, readers aren’t viewers; they recognize their pleasure as different from that of being entertained. Once you’ve pressed the on button, the TV goes on, and on, and on, and all you have to do is sit and stare. But reading is active, an act of attention, of absorbed alertness—not all that different from hunting, in fact, or from gathering. In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can’t lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire gunshots in your living room; you have to listen to it in your head. A book won’t move your eyes for you the way images on a screen do. It won’t move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won’t do the work for you. To read a story well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it—everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is not “interactive” with a set of rules or options, as games are; reading is actual collaboration with the writer’s mind. No wonder not everybody is up to it.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, “Staying Awake”

Andrew Garfield on consent and privacy