Peggy McIntosh; White Privilege Alicia Tougas

Quotes:

1) "Men's willingness to grant that they are over privileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged."
- This quote shows how men are stubborn and won't change things. The sentence following this quote states how men can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's status, which proves how stubborn men can be.

2) "My schooling gave me no training in seeing myself as an oppressor, as an unfairly advantaged person or as a participant in a damaged culture."
- This quote goes back to ho children should learn more about these topics in their younger schooling years. If this was being taught/ brought to their attention at a younger age, it would be easier for them to talk about it and go about life.

3)"Disapproving of the systems won't be enough to change them."
- If people just go at the system and tell them how they don't approve of whats going on and this and that, then nothing will get done. This quote is telling us that we need to make some actions inseadt of just stating how we feel.


Questions/ Comments/ Points to share:

This article was an easy read. In the article McIntosh showed how those that have "White Privilege" don't really recognize it, because have not been outside their own environment. Unless someone is brought into a situation that they are not used to, then they won't really know how to act or what to do. McIntosh also shows how men have the power and don't want the women to have power. This article refers back to the article by Johnson and when he talked about White privlege and also Delphits Culture of Power and the way people live and who have the most power over others.