Álvaro Sosa
Class Interview from November 19, 2014
Why the double standard race activist vs. gender activist?
The interviewee doubts that there is a double standard between race activists vs. gender activists because she believes that gender activists are going through the same motions as race activist did. She talks about how even male slave obtained their freedom before women did during the civil war. Among races white males come first and then males from other races leaving women at the end of the hierarchy. Her point of view is that women are not taken seriously because we live in small societies (spheres of socialization) where some women around men behave in ways that are interpreted by men as inferior and thus males universalize women by that one women they know. Men also agree that women should be equal but when they observed women who seem dumb, they tend to bring out their right to superiority because they are smarter or more well prepare than that one women being criticized. Thus men and women tend to look at the weaknesses of women to belittle them and perpetuate the inequality in this manner.
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