{"id":91,"date":"2011-07-05T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2011\/07\/lets-talk-about-privilege\/"},"modified":"2012-10-13T18:47:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T22:47:18","slug":"lets-talk-about-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2011\/07\/lets-talk-about-privilege.html","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Talk About Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The Turing Test is ongoing<\/a> (two more entries going up today, and more through the week), but I want to interrupt that for a second to try to talk about privilege and sexism one more time. In the two<\/a> posts<\/a> about Rebecca Watson\u2019s experience at an atheist conference, some discussions about whether women are being \u2018oversensitive\u2019 when we talk about privilege got tangled up in disputes over the way Rebecca had called out the people she disagreed with. Let me give a different example (that hasn\u2019t been picked over by the entire atheist blogosphere).<\/p>\n

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If I were driving at night and\/or along a fairly deserted and isolated road (in some alternate universe where I have a driver\u2019s license) and a patrol car came up behind me, turned on the siren, and indicated I should pull over, I wouldn\u2019t put on the brakes. I\u2019d try to find and pull into an actual police station or fumble around with my cell phone to call 911, explain where I was and what my car looked like, and ask the operator to confirm I was being followed by a real police car.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d need to do this because pulling someone over with fake police credentials is a strategy<\/a> used<\/a> by<\/a> rapists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s what\u2019s not<\/em> happening when I respond this way:<\/p>\n