My two previous blog posts were created by merging my analysis of the topics mentioned with my own personal experiences. For today’s blog post, I would like to take a different approach in analyzing the modules presented in our class. Today, I would like to reply to a video I have seen posted on a friend’s Facebook wall. The video was created by Lauren Southern, a very outspoken anti-feminist. Currently living in Langley, she is part of the Libertarian Party and has studied Political Science at the University of the Fraser Valley. She became famous after posting a photo of herself holding a piece of paper stating that she does not need feminism, for the reasons that males are also victimized by many of society’s inequalities. As she rose
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That’s right Lauren, even if you were a feminist, you would not be helping to create a world where reverse sexism exists. Why? Simply because reverse sexism cannot exist.
Reverse sexism cannot exist, just like any other forms of systematic and institutionalized oppression. The very nature of oppression does not allow for such a thing to exist. To be ‘reverse sexism,’ this oppression would either not exist, or there would be a system of oppression where the oppressed are dominating the dominant, which makes no sense!
Also, one key point: if Lauren does not accept the world of ‘reverse sexism’ that she says it will become, isn’t she accepting the fact that the very world we live in today does involve sexism?
“White privilege is a dangerous myth, because it promotes racism and supremacy”
Dangerous to whom? Is believing that white privilege exists dangerous to the boy murdered through police brutality for being black? Or is it dangerous to the Latino man who did not receive an interview due to his Hispanic name? Or maybe believing in such a myth is dangerous to the Asian child (like me!) who grew up wanting to do nothing but assimilate to white
That’s right Lauren, even if you were a feminist, you would not be helping to create a world where reverse sexism exists. Why? Simply because reverse sexism cannot exist.
Reverse sexism cannot exist, just like any other forms of systematic and institutionalized oppression. The very nature of oppression does not allow for such a thing to exist. To be ‘reverse sexism,’ this oppression would either not exist, or there would be a system of oppression where the oppressed are dominating the dominant, which makes no sense!
Also, one key point: if Lauren does not accept the world of ‘reverse sexism’ that she says it will become, isn’t she accepting the fact that the very world we live in today does involve sexism?
“White privilege is a dangerous myth, because it promotes racism and supremacy”
Dangerous to whom? Is believing that white privilege exists dangerous to the boy murdered through police brutality for being black? Or is it dangerous to the Latino man who did not receive an interview due to his Hispanic name? Or maybe believing in such a myth is dangerous to the Asian child (like me!) who grew up wanting to do nothing but assimilate to white