The uprising of the equality of the sexes has made much great progress. Although progress has been made, it has been mostly for those who are white women. The movement leaves out issues in third world countries and those of other races. For example, women are paid less than men, but women of African-American or Hispanic descent are paid even less. The closing of the wage gap applies only to white men against white women, while every person of the same job should be paid the same no matter their race or sex. The feminist movement caters to western whites by not only focusing on whites, but by also ignoring issues with race and suppression around the world. Many white women live under privilege without even knowing so. They lack the knowledge
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These attempts were seen as failures because they were unable to “engage with the racism” (Thomlinson 454). White feminist would try to use a work made by a woman of color to represent all women of color. Richard Wright highlighted this issue in his novel Native Son. Wright pointed out that whites like to look at one person to represent a culture (255). One person alone cannot represent the entirety of a culture. The view of a culture must come from the culture as a whole. Therefore, white feminist must use many works and many accounts to be able to accurately represent the colored culture. When mainstream feminist tried to speak from multiple points of view is often came across as racist (Thomlinson 454). Many women use many claims of black women, but did so without understanding and details (Ortega 62). This “arrogant ignorance” came from white women not wanting to learn from and understand women of color (Ortega …show more content…
A woman of color has to compensate for her ethnicity and sex by doing everything. She has no choice but to take on too many roles. Both white and colored women are assumed to take the role of the full time motherhood, but women of color also have to attend to trying to be seen with “whiteness” or “cleanliness.” It is not good enough for a woman of color to take on all household chores but she has to give off the notion of the family being clean. She has to work hard in order to prove she and her family was not what Richard Wright called a
These attempts were seen as failures because they were unable to “engage with the racism” (Thomlinson 454). White feminist would try to use a work made by a woman of color to represent all women of color. Richard Wright highlighted this issue in his novel Native Son. Wright pointed out that whites like to look at one person to represent a culture (255). One person alone cannot represent the entirety of a culture. The view of a culture must come from the culture as a whole. Therefore, white feminist must use many works and many accounts to be able to accurately represent the colored culture. When mainstream feminist tried to speak from multiple points of view is often came across as racist (Thomlinson 454). Many women use many claims of black women, but did so without understanding and details (Ortega 62). This “arrogant ignorance” came from white women not wanting to learn from and understand women of color (Ortega …show more content…
A woman of color has to compensate for her ethnicity and sex by doing everything. She has no choice but to take on too many roles. Both white and colored women are assumed to take the role of the full time motherhood, but women of color also have to attend to trying to be seen with “whiteness” or “cleanliness.” It is not good enough for a woman of color to take on all household chores but she has to give off the notion of the family being clean. She has to work hard in order to prove she and her family was not what Richard Wright called a