Your leveling-up thresholds come more quickly. The default barriers for completions of quests are lower. This means that the default behaviors for almost all the non-player characters in the game are easier on you than they would be otherwise. Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is. You have installed The Real World on your computer and are about to start playing, but first you go to the settings tab to bind your keys, fiddle with your defaults, and choose the difficulty setting for the game. Imagine life here in the US - or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western world - is a massive role playing game, like World of Warcraft except appallingly mundane, where most quests involve the acquisition of money, cell phones and donuts, although not always at the same time.
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So, the challenge: how to get across the ideas bound up in the word “privilege,” in a way that your average straight white man will get, without freaking out about it?īeing a white guy who likes women, here’s how I would do it:ĭudes. When confronted with “privilege,” they fiddle with the word itself, and haul out the dictionaries and find every possible way to talk about the word but not any of the things the word signifies. It’s not that the word “privilege” is incorrect, it’s that it’s not their word. I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a garlic tart at high noon. Shot, Discus, High jump, long jump, pole vault, triple White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is Personally I was always middle distance runner but coaching throws' events is far more rewarding. And yes, they want to do it again and again and eventually I will move them to the metal contraption that looks like a ball and chain, that looks menacingly frightening (It's only 1kg).
Always makes me immensely happy to see them having fun. "Wow! That's amazing, well done!" I shout out with glee as I just can't contain my excitement at how they can do it, with just some basic instruction. Lots just love to stand their and swing it around and around and around their head before their little strong arms feel weak. Or they start to giggle and loose their centre of gravity and wobble like jelly, that's when I giggle! I have to say, "Remember three times around and release!" Some kids then throw the 600gm contraption some 30m! Oh yes, I have the wind-millers and the cavemen approach - well you have to encourage them to make a noise if they want to when releasing the ball and chain from their grasp. Then I let them loose in the cage which seems to swallow them up as the wire net envelopes around them. That's why (thank goodness to any unsuspecting child in a group) they are safe.I've done the course, got the coaching qualification and being a teacher must help (hopefully). Like, a kid not letting go and flying through the air attached to the wire, another windmilling it around and around, letting it loose straight up in the air and then the only way back is straight back down. Of course I have visions running through my mind whenever I coach hammer which make me smile. And this is with children who are aged 8/10. Hammer is like high jump: they see the bar and panic shows on their faces immediately. By reverting to a soft rubber hammer, or flexi-bar in high jump, their little anxieties fade away and they think they can conquer the world - which IS the aim - build up their confidence first. "But, for those of us who are a little bit scared of the metal ball don't panic, you can practise with this one!" A specially adapted hammer made of rubber (for kids to use.) If ALWAYS in doubt! Only weighing 600g. OK, I thought, better go to plan B after noticing the look of horror on their faces. "Ah that's gonna hit me 'ed." "How can I throw that - do I just chuck it out?" Kids never stop surprising me. Pah! Then on the other hand they can't wait to get in there! Secondly, as I show them the metal hammer on the long wire. an open cage with a concrete concentric circle. First they think it's really scary to go into the cage (the safety net around) like an amazing jungle adventure as if they are going to get gobbled up by some creature lurking around.
Amusing isn't really the word I should use but it is - back to the hammer with young kids.
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