The Importance Of Privilege

The culprit for marginalization is privilege, but also ignorance. The one who is ignorant is the one who looks at others and think they are insignificant. Many believe that in the modern-day world driven by millennials, that we should be accepting of racial differences, gender equality, and religious tolerance. However, there is an internal and physical struggle to achieve that, even in an era that should be beyond the color of skin or the physical attributes one possesses. Privilege is not something racially exclusive, and I’d argue that every individual living in a safe haven like New York has experienced some type of privilege. In fact, it is a privilege to be around a diverse group of people who in the large part, do not openly discriminate …show more content…
At my past job, whenever women were hired, there would always be a joke associated to it, or never a commencement of who she is and what she’s done to be hired. Rather, she would be judged by her looks and if they would be interested in “getting to know her more”. This reminds me of the reading by Bell Hooks, “Feminism is for Everybody”, which speaks a large amount about the patriarchal system and how men are viewed as the breadwinners and the women are the homemakers. Women were never really treated with the amount of respect that men had, and that still has a way to go even today. Money has a huge role to do with it, although some may challenge that women make a lot of money too. I happily agree that the push of feminism to end the male dominant way of thinking is necessary, and that feminism is the way to do it. Hooks writes, “Men are socialized by ruling-class groups of men to accept domination in the public world of work and to believe that the private world of home and intimate relationships will restore to them the sense of power they equate with masculinity” (12, 65). This is one of the common fallacies of men in the workplace, thinking that the women should be in the private setting and the men should be the ones in the public world dominating. Hooks piece cleverly applies to this situation, as women are constantly by their looks and some even feel like their looks are what will take them far. From my experiences in the workplace, I found it extremely alarming that some men judged women only by their physical attributes rather than their inner personality. Hooks writes, “Increasingly today's fashion magazines look like the magazines of the past. More and more bylines are by males. Seldom do articles have a feminist perspective or feminist content. And the fashions portrayed tend to reflect sexist sensibility…