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. It’s not that the word “privilege” is incorrect, it’s that it’s not their word. 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.
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?
Being a white guy who likes women, here’s how I would do it:

Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is.

This article was an exceptional example of humor in tech-writing.

Remember how the "groundbreaking" game Myst for PC was clickfest 1993? It's now going to be tapfest 2009 for your iPhone.

From the video, it's pretty much the same game. You go around a pre-rendered world solving puzzles in order to something something something—I never actually finished it. It does look like a pretty decent iPhone game, despite it being older than half the kids in high school right now.

How heavy do you think Myst is going to come in at? 100MB? 200MB?

Brilliant.

So incredibly addictive.

Fascinating.

Exellent reviews of everything, based on an intense set of algorithms or something or other.

A nice old game for Mac gone free.

I have a friend with an Xbox.

When I was 15, I went to Japan for one year as an exchange student. I was the lone American in a school of 5,000 Japanese, and I quickly acquired one habit that has since driven every girlfriend and teacher of mine absolutely nuts: pen tricks.