This week’s reading is Patriarchy, the System An It, Not a He, a Them, or an Us by Allan G. Johnson really did it for me. As the weeks go by and we read different pieces that in some way connect to each other change my view on oppression and privilege. Allan G. Johnson argues the misconception and stereotypes people have when identifying the term patriarchy. Johnson argues that people tend to generalize and bind the term patriarchy with men and that why women feel free to blame men for the oppression we face. As well as this he considers people confuse the difference between patriarchy as a system and the individual. To emphasize he does an excellent job by placing the blame on society in how it shapes us and how we shape it instead of placing the blame on each other for oppression. 

I praise Audre Lorde’s, “There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions” because it describes the overlap of the types of oppression one faces when they are part of multiple groups that are being discriminated. For me it was the way she never picked one group over the other just because they might get less discrimination than the other, both these groups make her who she is. Lorde let it be known that she was going to fight whether it destroy her, that dedication and writing spoke volumes to me because it describes how society tries to change someone just to fit the norms but there are people who refuse to let themselves hide who they are.