I enjoyed both of this weeks readings. In the first reading “Patriarchy, the System: An It, Not a He, a Them, or an Us”, Allan Johnson talks about the patriarchal system and how we need to understand it in order to create a new system of socialization. A part of the text that stood out to me was “there is poverty and class oppression because people in the upper classes are greedy, heartless, and cruel”. I completely agree with this statement because the social class has always been like this. People in the upper class think that just because they are at the top, the people at the bottom get to be treated like garbage. I honestly don’t think that a social class should have even been created because this is another way that people are separated into groups but they shouldn’t be treated differently based on the status or group that they’re in.

The second reading “There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions”, Audre Lorde describes herself as “a Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, poet, mother of two including one boy and a member of an interracial couple”. Each group that Lorde identifies herself in is usually described as wrong or not right in other peoples eyes. Oppression can come in so many different ways and is portrayed in several different topics. Lorde states that there can be no hierarchies of oppression and I completely agree with her. We must fight oppression in all the groups, not just in one topic.