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### **Paragraph 1: Summary**(5+ sentences)

– What were the key points in the reading(s) **and** the lecture notes?  _**Summarize**_ _**both**_ _!_
– Identify and define important vocabulary
– What do you want to make sure you remember from this week?

### **Paragraph 2: Reaction**(5+ sentences)

– What was your personal reaction to this topic?
– Did you notice any connections between this topic and your own life?
– Did this topic remind you of any current events, media, movies, TV, or academic subjects?

### Throughout this semester, you will often see the words **privilege** and **oppression**.

#### Today we will explore what those terms really mean.

## Let’s start with **oppression**

**Oppression:** Prejudice and discrimination directed toward a group.

– Oppression is created by and continues on because of our **social institutions** (systems like education, law, the family, religion, the media, etc.)

– This is how we keep oppressing groups generation after generation!  It’s baked into our systems and institutions.
– Examples of oppression:
– Sexism
– Racism
– Classism (oppression of poor people)
– Homophobia (oppression of people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, etc.)
– Ableism (oppression of people with disabilities)
– _What other examples of oppression can you think of?_


## What about **privilege**?

**Privilege:** benefits, advantages, and power given to members of a dominant (powerful) group as a result of the oppression of the marginalized (oppressed) group

– People/groups can be privileged without realizing, recognizing, or even wanting it
– For example, one of my privileges is that I am a white person.  On an average day, I do not think about my whiteness.  I still face difficulties in my life, but those difficulties are not based on my whiteness.

### Oppressions always have corresponding privileges

– Sexism + male privilege
– For example: a woman being asked, “Are you in a bad mood because you’re PMSing?” **versus** a man being asked, “Is everything ok?  It seems like you’re having a hard day.”
– Racism + white privilege
– Fearing being the target of violence when you see a police officer **versus** feeling safe when you see a police officer
– Classism + middle-class or upper-class privilege
– Worrying about where you will sleep tonight **versus** not having to worry about how you will pay rent/mortgage
– Homophobia + heterosexual privilege
– Fearing you could face hateful comments or violence for holding your partner’s hand in public **versus** holding your partner’s hand in public without thinking about it
– Ableism + able-bodied privilege
– Not being able to enter, navigate, and exit a space easily **versus** not needing to think about how you will enter, navigate, and exit a space

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Gay.PeculiarBenefits1.pdf](https://www.sweetstudy.com/files/gay-peculiarbenefits1-pdf "Gay.PeculiarBenefits1.pdf")
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ReadFrye_TheSystemicBirdcageofOppression_1.pdf](https://www.sweetstudy.com/files/readfrye-thesystemicbirdcageofoppression-1-pdf "ReadFrye_TheSystemicBirdcageofOppression_1.pdf")