There was an amazingly good amount of material this week. One reading had to do with the philosopher Marilyn Freye debating the subjugation of culture on women. Marilyn Freye, “Oppression” sates that women are oppressed, and people or group could be just miserable but not oppress. If we as women start to even question a person of another group of their suffering, we are considered insensitive and mean something that women are not and is not our trait as women. As I was reading and she gave examples of how men cannot be vulnerable or even cry because they would be considered weak, I think how society has imposed behavior on both men and women, but men are not oppressed like women are. It has left me in a confusing place because there is aspect where the men that want to be emotional cannot show it and women who show everything but being a women get criticize this shows two sides, with one side being shown more but men not being oppresses because even if they cannot show emotion they are still winning because society imposed it that way. 

 Peggy McIntosh’s, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” Peggy addresses the systematic dominance as white privilege is carried out throughout her experience in everyday life. For me most of the examples I had already knowledge of but when she listed and stated, “I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group” (pg. 1) I understood that white people did not understand because they were not taught the aspect and things that are consider racism and how their white privilege contributes to that. She asks herself if once identify what can one do to lessen or end it, I have asked myself this when I witness something I do not agree with, and it might be impossible to end it because of the systemic dominance but I think people could lessen it.