Gender and Privilege/oppression White Privilege
Privilege/Oppression
“White Privilege and Male Privilege” by Peggy McIntosh
“Domination and Subordination” by J.B. Miller
“Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name” by Gloria Yamato
“Oppression” by Marilyn Frye
1) The article “White Privilege and Male Privilege” by Peggy Mcintosh discusses how just being born into the race of the majority (for now), and being born a man gives a whole host of helpful things in life that create an advantage over those who were not born Caucasian and/or Male. This known status is so prevalent throughout our culture that it affects the quality of the employment, education, housing, and social class one is able to achieve in our society. Author J.B. Miller wrote an article called “Domination and Subordination”, which speaks of the situations that cause inequality. Two specific types she mentions are temporary inequality, (situational-i.e. teacher/student relationships) and permanent inequality (characteristics that one is born with, such as race, religion, gender, etc.) “Oppression” by author Marilyn Frye relates how feminism is oppression, although the word has become rhetoric that is used as a joke by men to claim “reverse discrimination”. The gentlemen holding those doors for women may appear to be thoughtful and polite, yet the very act of racing to the entrance door for a female, even though they are more than capable of doing it themselves. This is an example of what most likely amounts to another worthless act of “rescuing” someone needlessly in a way that is actually insulting and demeaning (help me, I am the weak, needy woman….). Gloria Yamato writes about racism today, in its many forms, in “Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name”. The four main types of racism in the present are defined as 1) aware/blatant 2)aware/covert 3)unaware/unintentional 4)unaware/self-righteous
2) “White/Male Privilege is an invisible package of unearned assets that can be counted on to be cashed
“White Privilege and Male Privilege” by Peggy McIntosh
“Domination and Subordination” by J.B. Miller
“Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name” by Gloria Yamato
“Oppression” by Marilyn Frye
1) The article “White Privilege and Male Privilege” by Peggy Mcintosh discusses how just being born into the race of the majority (for now), and being born a man gives a whole host of helpful things in life that create an advantage over those who were not born Caucasian and/or Male. This known status is so prevalent throughout our culture that it affects the quality of the employment, education, housing, and social class one is able to achieve in our society. Author J.B. Miller wrote an article called “Domination and Subordination”, which speaks of the situations that cause inequality. Two specific types she mentions are temporary inequality, (situational-i.e. teacher/student relationships) and permanent inequality (characteristics that one is born with, such as race, religion, gender, etc.) “Oppression” by author Marilyn Frye relates how feminism is oppression, although the word has become rhetoric that is used as a joke by men to claim “reverse discrimination”. The gentlemen holding those doors for women may appear to be thoughtful and polite, yet the very act of racing to the entrance door for a female, even though they are more than capable of doing it themselves. This is an example of what most likely amounts to another worthless act of “rescuing” someone needlessly in a way that is actually insulting and demeaning (help me, I am the weak, needy woman….). Gloria Yamato writes about racism today, in its many forms, in “Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name”. The four main types of racism in the present are defined as 1) aware/blatant 2)aware/covert 3)unaware/unintentional 4)unaware/self-righteous
2) “White/Male Privilege is an invisible package of unearned assets that can be counted on to be cashed