Personal Narrative: Being A White Female

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Being a white, heterosexual, female means I am privileged to do many things some people are not but also some things that can be frowned upon if I did them. Being a female already puts me below a male. Being a white female I can go anywhere I want and not have people watch what I am doing. I can walk into a store have the sales associate say hello to me and continue on with her day. I can also carry around bigger bills and not have anybody think anything less of me besides that I work my but off for that money. Also, being a female I know that I’m not as good as a male. Men have better paying jobs and don’t have to worry about where they park, if they go out at night, or if a women is going to say something extremely rude to them while …show more content…
Too always be completely covered and to not let any boys see your girl parts. My dad the stricter on of my parents didn’t even let me have any boyfriends; so dressing in loose fitting jeans a t-shirt was what my dad insisted I wear. If I happen to wear a dress it was below the knees. My parents always told me that if I wore something low cut or too revealing something bad could happen to me if I was alone, almost to say men cant control themselves around females wearing something that shows their body. Naomi Wolf had said in “Female Beauty” – “the beauty is not about women at all. It is about men’s institutions and institutional powers.” (Wolf 118) Meaning that all girls should look a certain way to be considered beautiful. But from my very own experience I know very well that known of that is true and that men will do what they want weather making a female uncomfortable or not. And to my surprise my parents are not wrong, even when I am alone in sweatpants and sweatshirt men can be such …show more content…
Even though that isn’t listed and they don’t discriminate they are asking because they rather know before calling for an interview. As Beverly Daniel Tatum had said in “Defining Racism: “Can we Talk” - “However, most white people, if they are really being honest with themselves, can see that there are advantages to being white in the United States.” (Tatum 339) Meaning that even if we are denial of the truth the white race has more that they can do than any other race in the United States. Caucasian people are born and automatically have an advantage over people of color without even being able to tell the difference between the

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