SY103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: White Privilege, Meritocracy
Sy103 lecture 32
Violence Against Women
• - Dec. 6, 1989 an enraged gunman roamed the corridors of Montreal’s Ecole
Polytechnique and killed 14 women
• - Marc Lepine, 25, separated men from women before opening fire on the classroom on
female engineering students he screamed, “I hate feminists”
• - Almost immediately, the Montreal Massacre became a galvanizing moment in which
mourining turned into outrage about all violence against women
Shelters
• - Interrupting the intergenerational cycle of violence
• - Changing cultural values around masculinity and violence
Inequalities of Gender continued...
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“White privilege puts me at an advantage”
“Unearned skin privilege”
Challenges the notions of meritocracy
Whiteness
Ruth Frankenberg
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A position of structural advantage
