Magic: The Exclusive Gathering

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[soliloquy76.livejournal.com]

I imagined these two in that scene:

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

BOOM!

Seriously?

[wraithtdk.livejournal.com]

Hey, here’s a crazy idea:

How about you lay into people who give you shit for stupid reasons, and let everyone else enjoy their game? Ok, you deal with some things that aren’t fair. Life. Isn’t. Fair. I spent four years of my life as a biracial kid in a town with an active chapter of Klu Klux Klan. I understand what it’s like to take crap because of who or what you are. For me it took the form of threats, destruction of property and physical violence, instead of someone mentioning card-game stereotype, but I get it. But you know what I didn’t do? I didn’t go to parties and rant about race relations. I didn’t act like it was my obligation to ensure that white people who I knew weren’t racists couldn’t enjoy themselves unless I was enjoying myself.

Seriously, people, must everything turn into the oppression Olympics? It’s a damn card game. If you’re at a game where someone is being a tool, that is when you call them on it. There’s a difference between that and just ceaselessly bitching about every little thing. People play games to have fun. And don’t kid yourself, every single one of them have problems of their own. They have their own frustrations. They face their own share of unfair things in their life, and all they want to do is sit down for a while, forget about those things and play game.

And those last two panels? When the guys says “can’t I just have fun playing a game without dealing with these social issues,” and she says “that’s the same thing I’m asking for?”

No she’s not. Because right there? In that scene? She had the opportunity to do exactly that. She had the opportunity to just play a game without having to deal with sexism, and what does she do with that opportunity? She uses it to talk about sexism. Do you know what the first step is in finding a game where you don’t have to think or deal with sexism? Don’t bring up sexism. If you encounter it, of course, by all means deal with it. If you don’t, and you still feel the need to make the whole night about it? You are the problem.

People, believe it or not, you can care about justice and fight for equality without being a total buzz-kill. I promise you, no one’s going to take away your social justice warrior membership card because you experienced a moment of joy during which you weren’t ranting about something that ended in “ism.” Honest.

Leave. The drama. At home.

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