the choice thing to the end to emphasise how much it sucks that you cannot make that choice; and when I say that, I do not mean that SWM would want to choose a higher difficulty setting, but that it sucks for the people who don't experience privilege that they can't. It's not invalidating the problems, experiences or accomplishments of people with privilege (trust me, I have an incredible amount of privilege and have never once felt that that invalidated my achievements), but to emphasise that others do not have that privilege and thus that achievements become more difficult. It is a metaphor, not the real world, and playing on a harder difficulty setting is not something to aspire to in the real world, but helping or at least understanding and empathising with those who are on a harder difficulty setting is. Perhaps a lot of these caveats should have been in the article. But that doesn't invalidate his general point. I agree that metaphors can never be perfect, however I found it a bit of a stretch to relate it to what he was trying to convey, so when it gets down to it that's what was grating me, not what he said, but how he said it. I'm definitely not denying the fact that straight white males could have more opportunities than other groups, but I'm just not that keen on being lumped into a group with people who are purposefully ignorant. I stated above that I am