But due to more conversations about microaggressions and the ways in which implicit bias negatively impacts the daily lives of BIPOC, I found myself re-evaluating a lot. I have quite a few memories of laying in the summer sun giggling at cards about sex or in the winter, cuddled for warmth in my PJ’s around a table with friends cringing at the old references. As the cards continued to appear, it became clear to me that this was no longer just a harmless game.Ĭards against Humanity has not always been a game I condemned. Soon followed others about pedophiles, the Holocaust, and the KKK. How did this fun, silly game take such a turn? When did I become the one who was (tangentially) the butt of the joke? My face got heated and I decided to brush it off. “The Black side of Barack Obama.” More laughter. I couldn’t believe I had the privilege of being in on all the jokes from this decidedly adult game. “Drinking out of the toilet and eating garbage,” “Men,” “David Bowie flying in on a tiger made of lightning.” A chorus of laughter erupted from the group. How cool was I, to be playing this adult game with topics we had only heard discussed in hushed whispers by older kids or in hidden jokes on TV. I giggled with the kind of innocence only a naive 14-year-old could muster. “How did I lose my virginity?” the black card read. Huddled together in the basement, we sat cross-legged with seven white cards in front of us and one black in the center. “It’s just like Apples to Apples,” my friend reassured me. After running through the usual sequence of pre-teen party games, Truth or Dare, Would You Rather, Odds Are etcetera, someone suggested we play a game I’d never heard of before: Cards Against Humanity. Excited to be attending my first coed gathering, I dressed to the nines and chatted anxiously about the event with friends all day. I will never forget my first experience with Cards Against Humanity. This game has been nicknamed as one for horrible people and yet it continues to be popular in a number of progressive social circles. People combine things like Auschwitz with a joke about parents walking in on someone with a partner or laugh about police brutality as a sex position. A play on words of the phrase “crimes against humanity”, the goal of the game is to generate shocking word pairs the most common rule being that within the safe haven of the game, no card is considered too offensive. I drink to forget fat chicks.” These are but a few examples of the card combinations generated by the popular card game Cards Against Humanity. What’s a girl’s best friend? Being marginalized.
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