{"id":833,"date":"2022-03-02T23:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T04:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/?p=833"},"modified":"2022-03-02T23:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T04:59:39","slug":"reading-reflection-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/2022\/03\/02\/reading-reflection-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Reflection 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are born into Patriarchy. There is no choice. It is the sociocultural default, but it is not just \u201chuman nature\u201d. Allan Johnson\u2019s \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patriarchy, the System\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">emphasizes that Patriarchy is greater than the individual; It is a systemic issue. Johnson highlights some of the very basic things of society that are \u201cnormal\u201d to us, but in reality are incredibly harmful to all. An example is the belief that a mother is the one who should stay at home and take care of the children. This defaults to placing the care and parenting on the woman out of biological \u201cmaternal instinct\u201d. This is why in single-parent families, it is often a single mother, because the father was able to walk away \u201cbaggage-free\u201d, no concern for the children, and no consequences for him. This default to \u201cmaternal care\/instinct\u201d is why it is often difficult or not allowed for fathers to take a leave from work after his baby is born. Paternity leave is a faint concept.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the excerpt from Audre Lorde, she talks about her varying identities (i.e. lesbian, black, woman, feminist, member of interracial relationship) and how they are all intertwined in furthering oppression. As a black lesbian herself, Lorde says that\u00a0 \u201can attack on black people is an attack on [queer people], and an attack on [queer people] is an attack on black people.\u201d Someone can be a member of multiple groups that face different types of oppression, and that one mode of oppression can feed off the other like fire. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lorde says, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I simply do not believe that one aspect of myself can possibly profit from the oppression of any other part of my identity. I know that my people cannot possibly profit from the oppression of any other group which seeks the right to peaceful existence.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are born into Patriarchy. There is no choice. It is the sociocultural default, but it is not just \u201chuman nature\u201d. Allan Johnson\u2019s \u201cPatriarchy, the System\u201d emphasizes that Patriarchy is greater than the individual; It is a systemic issue. Johnson highlights some of the very basic things of society that are \u201cnormal\u201d to us, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}