Common Folk Collective » roosevelt franklin http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog Common Folk Doing Uncommon Things Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:08:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 Privilege and Gender Politics http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2013/08/privilege-and-gender-politics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=privilege-and-gender-politics http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2013/08/privilege-and-gender-politics/#comments Thu, 01 Aug 2013 04:10:42 +0000 http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/?p=4431 Recently on Facebook a friend posted this article from the Washington Post Funny how gender never came up during Bernanke’s nomination. Or Greenspan’s. Or Volcker’s.

My comment was something to the effect of:

My career in software development has exposed me to more of this bullshit than anyone should have to bear. I’ve been fortunate enough to work with some super smart people and I learned tons from them. Unfortunately I’ve also been in the room (and few times when they weren’t in the room) where I saw first hand how since “they were a girl” they didn’t get the respect they deserved. S’s comment really resonates because very early in my career I didn’t understand how privilege worked. Luckily I grew up and was educated alongside many smart and talented people and at the end of the day I don’t care what chromosomes you have as long as you kick ass.

To borrow a quote from Roosevelt Franklin

Does anybody even notice? Does anybody even care? I think I’m way too smart to fall for this bullshit, but I realized I’m way too dumb to figure out how to stop it. One day I’ll figure it out, man, it’s like something’s gotta give.

From jezebel.com

From jezebel.com

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Roosevelt Franklin is one of those groups that if the person you are speaking to knows of them you can be pretty much assured that you can trust their taste in music.

More links after the jump

Some of the videos are NSFW.

white women and watermelon from the masterminds on Vimeo.

brooklyn blackout from the masterminds on Vimeo.

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