ext_36875 ([identity profile] rinue.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rinue 2009-12-07 11:50 pm (UTC)

I'm right with you on the need to unpack privilege and the assumptions that come with you. I wish I could work out a clever way to do it. Mostly what confuses me is the idea of "if I'm not this then I must be the opposite." (I never liked true/false tests either.) Ciro has sensibly suggested that humans' tendency to build these false dualisms is the result of a general survival trait where you need to be able to quickly class things as dangerous/not dangerous. I don't know, though - it seems like our brains are pretty big now.

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