VIEW: We need to end rich white male privilege in poker
11-24-2015
, 08:45 AM
11-25-2015
, 02:47 PM
Quote:
been a rather big limon fan for a while yet sometimes your posts just boggle my mind.
i don't get at all what you're trying to do here. i missed this post the first time around and now that i've read it like 5 times, i am still very confused. usually you have a legit agenda or goal or something but it seems here that you may be 2nd or 3rd leveling the forums or possibly some specific person for making a comment about privilege in poker.
so can you just outright say what the goal of your post is?
i've been around poker for a while now and it's actually the one area where i see the least racism and the least privilege exhibited. sure people hold stereotypes (as all do), and they are used to try to take advantage of each other, but it's even across the board with the one exception of being harder to be a woman player.
i'd say it can be disgusting how some people treat/react to women at the table (condescending, belittling, overly aggressive hitting on, etc.), so if you're trying to have rich white men stop doing that, then that's wonderful (no idea but i'd guess older skeevy rich white men are probably more likely to exhibit this type of behavior towards women). but that is a stretch given your post.
so while poker is kinda sexist in that it's harder to be taken seriously as a woman, it's totally not a privilege that rich white men get an advantage from. it's something that women have to deal with and that sucks.
on the plus side, i've seen maybe 1 instance of racism ever in poker. poker's gotta be a billion times more sexist than it is racist. phil ivey had a great quote in an interview where he was asked about playing as a young black man in atlantic city and and if he had to face racism, stereotypes, or prejudice. he didn't miss a beat and responded by saying something to the effect of "i've never experienced racism in poker. everybody only sees one color at the table, and that's green"
so yea, limon, what gives w/ this post?
i don't get at all what you're trying to do here. i missed this post the first time around and now that i've read it like 5 times, i am still very confused. usually you have a legit agenda or goal or something but it seems here that you may be 2nd or 3rd leveling the forums or possibly some specific person for making a comment about privilege in poker.
so can you just outright say what the goal of your post is?
i've been around poker for a while now and it's actually the one area where i see the least racism and the least privilege exhibited. sure people hold stereotypes (as all do), and they are used to try to take advantage of each other, but it's even across the board with the one exception of being harder to be a woman player.
i'd say it can be disgusting how some people treat/react to women at the table (condescending, belittling, overly aggressive hitting on, etc.), so if you're trying to have rich white men stop doing that, then that's wonderful (no idea but i'd guess older skeevy rich white men are probably more likely to exhibit this type of behavior towards women). but that is a stretch given your post.
so while poker is kinda sexist in that it's harder to be taken seriously as a woman, it's totally not a privilege that rich white men get an advantage from. it's something that women have to deal with and that sucks.
on the plus side, i've seen maybe 1 instance of racism ever in poker. poker's gotta be a billion times more sexist than it is racist. phil ivey had a great quote in an interview where he was asked about playing as a young black man in atlantic city and and if he had to face racism, stereotypes, or prejudice. he didn't miss a beat and responded by saying something to the effect of "i've never experienced racism in poker. everybody only sees one color at the table, and that's green"
so yea, limon, what gives w/ this post?
