Archive - October 23rd, 2014
Poor kids who do everything right don’t do better than rich kids who do everything wrong
Poor kids who do everything right don’t do better than rich kids who do everything wrong:
Hard to rise, and harder to fall: Poor college grads stay poor about as much as rich high school dropouts stay rich.
The Only Thing I Have To Say About Gamer Gate
The Only Thing I Have To Say About Gamer Gate:
So seeing another gamer on the street used to be an auto-smile opportunity, or an entry into a conversation starting with, “Hey, dude! I love that game too!” Me and that stranger automatically had something in common: A love for something unconventional. Outsiders in arms. We had an auto-stepping stone to hurtle over human-introduction-awkwardness, into talking about something we loved together. Instant connection!
But for the first time maybe in my life, on that Saturday afternoon, I walked towards that pair of gamers and I didn’t smile. I didn’t say hello. In fact, I crossed the street so I wouldn’t walk by them. Because after all the years of gamer love and inclusiveness, something had changed in me. A small voice of doubt in my brain now suspected that those guys and I might not be comrades after all. That they might not greet me with reflected friendliness, but contempt.
I went home and was totally, utterly depressed.
