This week the discussion about oppression continues & Patriarchy Is talked about. I read Allan Johnson, “Patriarchy, the System: An It, not a He, a Them, or an Us”. He discusses what patriarchy is, the idea behind it. He goes on to talk about how it impacts every individual in negative ways & how individuals participate in the system with or without knowing. Patriarchy is taught to us from a young age. Some of us kind of just went along with it. The definition of Patriarchy is a system of society or government that is male-dominated, male identified, and male-centered basically oppressing women.  In general, the whole idea of patriarchy is messed up. I can see myself how over time we grew into this. We see examples of this in the news, books, television and real life. Over time understanding the problem comes with thinking about a solution Allen thinks that fingers shouldn’t be pointed. We have to gain awareness and spread it to men or women. We have to stop our future generations from following the same paths. Leaving the idea of Patriarchy completely as it is to create a different system of socialization is the way to go. 

Audre Lorde, “There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions” was a short reading but had a lot of meaning and emotions in it. She is basically speaking about Oppression in the world, the oppression that She goes through, and that there are people like her going through the same thing. From how it sounds Audre states that she is Black, Lesbian, And A Feminist, A mother and more. She is looked at as deviant, difficult, inferior or just plain “wrong” to some people. She is basically speaking out against the things that cause people to oppress her and some of the things other people like her are oppressed about.  Being Black does come with some kind of oppression, but why because of a person’s skin, Being Lesbian causes Oppression because they choose to like the same Sex. There is nothing wrong with that. People shouldn’t go through Feeling oppressed for what they believe in. One form of oppression is not better than the other.  Audre Lorde is trying to raise awareness to fight and find a solution for this oppression.