Dr. Jensen Analysis

Robert Jensen’s presentation about social justice was a surprise to me, beforehand I was expecting to listen to a man that was going to shove white privilege, feminism, racism, etc. down our throats like many other professionals in the field. In reality, he was a very down to earth and educated man who worked a part of his life trying to fix and tell others about the social injustices we see in the present. What struck me the most was that I was expecting to hear a presentation from a young woman, and not from a middle-aged white man because these topics are normally spoken by women and not men. Initial thoughts aside, I think what stayed with me the most about Dr. Jensen’s talk was how we have seen this divide between man for less than 15,000 years. To begin, one of the driving instincts in a human is the will to survive. Men for many centuries have always been stronger than women due to their genetics. From that point of realization, the male gender has been dominant in the world and understood that with strength came power. That idea of power has been translated from the physical world into the material world as Jensen was trying to explain. Money and politics have shaped the system to where in the present, even though we are no longer hunter-gatherer people, men …show more content…
Jensen pointed out, has been ingrained in our psyche to the point where men and women accept their purpose and position in life as “tradition.” Of course, not all men and women think this way. Rights movements such as the Woman’s rights movement in the 1920’s, African American movement in the 1960’s, and the LGBT movement of the 1970’s, have had a huge impact on the rights of these respective groups. But as Dr. Jensen described, we as a society are still not equal. Woman have a wage gap versus their male coworkers, most African Americans are being discriminated by police officers, and the LGBT community still faces hate crimes like in the shootings in Orlando,