WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Male Privilege, Heterosexism, Trans Woman
24 Aug 2016
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Kimmel and mac: regardless of what system of oppression we"re looking at, when we talk about normal and other, we only talk about difference women as different lesbians/gays are different coloured people are different. Mcintosh: look at what our culture defines as normal and therefore as somehow morally neutral and see it instead as part of a system of unearned advantage that confer dominance on certain groups. Komaya: extend that notion to cis-gender men and women. As women are disadvantaged, we must also acknowledge that men are correspondingly privileged. Male the gender is culturally created, and not neutral or the. Over-representation of men in culture don"t correlate to real-world benefits for actual men. Male privilege and over-representation isn"t systemic, it"s idiosyncratic. Even if male hegemony is institutionalized, it didn"t help me as a man individually. Even if male hegemony is institutionalized, we are powerless to change it. Even if we wanted to change it, we have other obligations.
