In the male-dominated society, men are allowed the privilege of having their mental disorders acknowledged and respected. This sometimes occurs even without the man himself recognizing his mental disorders. Take Tony Stark from Iron Man 3 as an example, he faces anxiety disorders and suffers from panic attacks. When this film was released, it was met with praise and only a few criticisms, but above all, it was taken seriously. Switch out the pretentious billionaire arms dealer for sexism and an imprisoned black woman with a mental disorder, and you are presented with Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren. Where Mr. Stark’s panic attacks are no laughing matter, in the first seasons of Orange is The New Black, Ms. Warren, and her mental disorders are
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One way to understand those two factors would be by understanding Andrea Smith’s three pillars of white supremacy. In Smith’s chapter “Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing,” she identifies the three pillars as capitalism, colonialism, and war. When she discusses the impact of these pillars, she states “[o]ur survival strategies and resistance to white supremacy are set by the system of white supremacy itself. What keeps us trapped within our particular pillars…is that we are seduced with the prospect of being able to participate in the other pillars” (Smith 69). Implicating that minorities work under white supremacy pillars make Smith’s argument that in order to deconstruct these three pillars, minorities need to work together with other minorities instead of working with the pillars. These pillars can stretch to more specific issues than colonialism, war, and capitalism, it can help connect mental disorders of minority women as well. As a result of white supremacy standards, it could be implicated that minority households abstain from acknowledging mental disorders as part of the system of white supremacy. What comes along with white supremacy also comes along white feminism, and in order for one to call themselves a feminist, they need to address the problems of not only white women but of minority women as
One way to understand those two factors would be by understanding Andrea Smith’s three pillars of white supremacy. In Smith’s chapter “Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing,” she identifies the three pillars as capitalism, colonialism, and war. When she discusses the impact of these pillars, she states “[o]ur survival strategies and resistance to white supremacy are set by the system of white supremacy itself. What keeps us trapped within our particular pillars…is that we are seduced with the prospect of being able to participate in the other pillars” (Smith 69). Implicating that minorities work under white supremacy pillars make Smith’s argument that in order to deconstruct these three pillars, minorities need to work together with other minorities instead of working with the pillars. These pillars can stretch to more specific issues than colonialism, war, and capitalism, it can help connect mental disorders of minority women as well. As a result of white supremacy standards, it could be implicated that minority households abstain from acknowledging mental disorders as part of the system of white supremacy. What comes along with white supremacy also comes along white feminism, and in order for one to call themselves a feminist, they need to address the problems of not only white women but of minority women as