I think I experience some privilege because of course, I do not need to walk miles to go and get water just as the women said in the video. We have a safe space to sleep in whereas others don’t. We also take for granted that some of us wake up everyday with no worries of food or shelter. Many people do not have that blessing. There are a lot of jobs available here with good enough pay that not everyone experiences. We have health care which makes sures we get what we need. I don’t have to worry about the rent going unpaid.When it comes to privilege you need to know this means religion, racial, gender, sexual orientation, wealth, social class and many other things. White privilege sets people way ahead of life just because of their skin orientation. They can get into any job, school etc plus be able to get out of many things without consequences. Gay people have some privileges now such as same sex marriage which they did not have before. Social class varies when it comes to privilege and oppression because me being low class I never really had the opportunity to do as much as others like i.e see the world whereas, upper class could do a lot more and has a wide range of opportunities. The Way I experience oppression is with mental health issues because of things such as anxiety where I can not do anything without getting really anxious and hiding. I also have bipolar type 1 where it makes it really hard for me to maintain any kind of relationship including friendships. Also, it makes it harder for me to be in a workspace as well. It kinda just stops everything in my life. Another way I experience oppression is when I’m a female and an example of what I mean is both genders could get paid for doing the same job but only the female will get paid less. The video mainly helped me define privilege more as something which holds you back from some life experience compared to others experiences. I used to believe it was just something I could not understand. Before watching the video I only related privilege and oppression to white people or black people. I always assumed it was more of a racial thing than gender or even social class as I mentioned.
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Regarding mental health, I want to point out that it’s not a bipolar disorder that oppresses you on the societal level. It is that our society is not set up to make accommodations for you, that mental health still isn’t understood and there is a stigma attached to the area, and that mental health is treated differently than physical health.