Feminist Intersections In Society

In society, it is exceptionally hard to ignore the constructs of race, gender, sexuality, and class. While many people believe that to be more progressive these ideas and constructs must be ignored, that does not seem to be possible on the condition that they have become so embedded in our culture and nature that to ignore them is to inherently strip people of their identities: where they come from, who they choose to be and who they are. Moreover, according to Lisa H. Weasel, these intersections should be considered in everything that should do with human nature and the many different cultures we have. In her essay, “Feminist Intersections in Science: Race, Gender and Sexuality Through the Microscope,” she discusses the topics of race, gender,
While reading the essay, it was easy to compare what she was saying with many other subjects known for social commentary such as the newly released movie, Get Out. In the movie, the main character learns of a secret society that takes the bodies of black individuals and implants the brains of older, white peers who seek to gain something they lost. The connection to Weasel’s essay comes from the different ways that society has presented African and Black American’s genes and whether they are superior or inferior to those of others, especially White Americans or not. The essay and this movie both rely on the topic of race and just how marginalized African Americans are in society because of genetic and physical make
It almost seems to be the opposite. While watching the movie, it is presented that her family is filled with Liberals who want to understand and even assert themselves into black culture as a way of showing they are past racism. At the same time, it is obvious that something with the family is wrong and not at all what the main character, Chris, suspected. As it turns out, something more sinister is at play and that something is the family is abducting black people, hypnotizing them into their own subconscious, and then placing the brains of white people who wish to gain something from these experiments into the heads of the people they have kidnapped. The premise is to exhibit the conflicting and harmful ideas of white liberals who work toward equality for everyone, but overshadow the people they are meant to be listening to. It seems as though this is a recurring theme in history, that is to say, according to the ABC-CLIO's The American Mosaic: The African American Experience website in an article written by Deborah Lee, when writing the Constitution, the founding fathers ran into the issue of including slaves in the confines of equal protection because, “despite Thomas Jefferson's famous call that ‘all men are created equal’ in the Declaration of Independence, several of the Founding Fathers owned or inherited slaves and