The article “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” was written to inform the reader about white privilege and male privilege. It states that men necessarily do not realize that they hold an advantage over women just as though whites do not always realize they are more privileged than blacks. The author Peggy McIntosh thoroughly describes that just by being born with white skin, you automatically are at an advantage over someone who was not born white. She also explains that men do in fact recognize women’s status in the world and will do certain things to improve it. However, they are unwilling to do anything to lessen their own privilege.…
As a response to years of domination and human rights movement, the phrase “blaming the victim” was coined by William Ryan in the book he published in 1971 (Schoellkopf,2012). Many people have adopted the phrase including supporters of crime victims, specifically rape victims. In the Old Testament concerning tragic events, various instances of victim blaming can be found considering blaming the victim as sinners (Robinson as cited in Schoellkopf, 2012). Victim blaming is one of the unfortunate consequences of a belief in a just world. According to Schoellkopf (2012), it is an occurrence that has been recently recognized as a dynamic used in maintaining status quo and empowering criminals.…
a. What does the author mean by the concept of "white privilege"? By reading the article regarding “White Privilege and Male Privilege", I think that the author is talking about the privileges, special provisions and the easy way, white people specially white males live easy life compared to other minorities races. All these fundamental privileges that have white males allow them to have an easy life and to acquire considered unearned assets. It 's like a passport that allows them to have access to every desire and whim easily.…
Mrs. Universe and Activism Women’s Enews recently released the story of a woman that has now sparked controversy. Canadian pageant contestant Ashley Callingbull is the only First Nation woman to ever win the title of Mrs. Universe. First Nation refers to the groups of native peoples in Canada that have no ties to the Inuit/Eskimo or the Metis: a group comprised of those with Native American and European ancestry. (Metis Nation 2007) Callingbull belongs to the Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada. Controversy has been raised not for her title, but for how she is using it.…
This simply is not true. Theriault is making a sweeping generalization about a large group of people, not knowing or stopping to consider that not everyone thinks this way. There are people who feel this way, and not all of them are white, cisgendered women. Theriault also claims that white feminists only support issues that directly affect them, which is another completely false statement. White feminists support countless organizations that fight a wide variety of issues.…
As part of our class readings for this year, our last assigned reading tackles the very controversial topic of race in this country. As we have learned about class in our discussions, we have also learned about how race can serve as a precursor to division in our country. One of these examples of this division in race occurs with the ongoing discussion of police brutality in our local communities. From Ferguson to Baltimore, this has been a fervent discussion for many years. One of the books that discusses this policing in local communities is ”Punished:…
Running Head: WHITE MALE PRIVILEGE 1 White Male Privilege Miranda J. Repass Stautzenberger College In this paper I will be explaining what white male privilege is and the significance of it. White male privilege is a term for societal privilege which benefits white males.…
Question 4 The issue of police brutality is sickeningly present in America and highly controversial. Instead of being flooded with feelings of relief and safety upon seeing a member of the police force, people of color feel anxiety and fear. Will this police officer harass or question me with no valid reason?…
White Privilege For those of you who have never heard of white privilege, it is the unearned benefits given to white people that are understood as normal. White privilege is not only linked to white males. All Caucasians are born with access to resources that are not granted to other races (Kendall 2002). To understand someone, you must walk in his or her shoes.…
White privilege is ignored by whites in society because we live in a nation of white dominance. Whites most often ignore the fact that blacks and other minorities do not enjoy these advantages. McIntosh defines white privilege as the many advantages white people enjoy, often seen as normal, and are largely unnoticed by society. Peggy McIntosh describes white privilege as “an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks. ”(Calihealth).…
White men are using rape culture, which is “ a complex of beliefs that encourages male sexual aggression and supports violence against women.” In rape cultures women encounter sexual violence along a series of behaviors from economic power to rape to murder. It is important to remember that sexual violence is culturally constructed, meaning not all men have committed rape and when they did, it was not for the same reasons. Also, different cultures perceive women rape victims differently. White men did not commit rape to simply satisfy sexual urges, they committed rape to assert dominance over the victims and the kinsmen that were unable to protect them.9 This is evident during the Reconstruction, not all men committed rape but the ones that did, had their own reasons such as trying to disprove African American citizenship, and when it came to the rape victims, not everyone believed them or cared about them and…
Racism has been around since Europeans started taking Africans out of their homelands and forcing them to work on plantations as slaves. Since then it has grown into an incredibly large issue that seems to be everywhere. However, a new question about racism is appearing, and it has a new name. Reverse racism. Whites use this term when sharing stories about being oppressed or having negative comments made about their skin color.…
If you attempt to Google “victimization of those that work in the system”, the first thing that is going to come up is someone else asking, “Can police officers be victimized?” Needless to say, I felt that the Internet could not help me, so if this makes no sense, I apologize. Anyways, I thought about that question on Google that had a seemingly obvious answer. Those who work in the system are only human, meaning that of course, they can be victimized. If we look at them just as people, the list of types of victimization could be never ending.…
Rape and Remuneration: An Analysis of Culturally Normalized Misogyny and Sexual Violence In early February 2017 Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger appeared in a Ted Talks podcast to deliver their co-authored speech “Our Story of Rape and Reconciliation”. In this talk, Elva and Stranger reflect on their adolescent relationship and discuss how Stranger sexually assaulted Elva. Nine years later, Elva wrote Stranger a letter expressing the emotional trauma she had been experiencing, and his apologetic response inspired an open dialogue about sexual violence that the two eventually turned into their book South of Forgiveness. Primarily, the talk itself focuses on celebrating both of their journeys of personal growth and their reconciliation through…
Nobody should fall victim of false accusations, especially when it could ruin their life, but when males are unproportionally victim to this, it needs to be addressed as a real problem that men…