This weeks topic is so impactful, I think this is the crux of some of what we have learned this semester. It seems a little easier for people to rationalize the nuances of social and cultural oppression. There’s always some excuse or work around to try to deny the fact that it’s about racism and sexism. Blaming personal trades instead of facing that it’s about judgement of the whole. Examples; ‘you can rise to the top if you work hard, inequality doesn’t have to do with race”.

This topic takes it straight to the most basic human right, that in my eyes there is no rationalizing. A person can not get health care, can not save their own life, get treatments equal to any other human, because of the way they look. There is no way of saying it is a woman’s fault she has a period or that a woman shouldn’t be able to bring a child into the world the same way another woman with a different color skin can.

I am not saying that I agree with any of the reasons that inequality is exercised, but when it comes to the living breathing working human body there is no argument that we are any different. Scientifically we are literally exactly the same inside and need the same care in order to survive. There is no way around it, no working harder, no playing the game of life, no changing yourself, if you’re sick there’s only one option for getting better.

So that is the connection I make between these readings and film, the body of a human being, the way it works biologically has absolutely no difference in the need for care. There couldn’t be a more obvious argument for quality.

I was mostly surprised by the film, Period: End of Sentence, and the Vice article, 12 Reasons it Should Be Illegal not to Treat Trans People, about trans people not being able to get medical attention. Mostly because I definitely was already aware of the discrimination that black women face in health care.

Period: End of Sentence is such a reminder of how technology has changed the world, and how behind and advanced different places are. Although we have a lot of work to do here in the US, we have come a long way in contrast to seeing where other Countries are with Feminist rights. But, at the same time, inequality does seem to be some sort of virus that mutates sadly. If it’s not in one area it’s in another. Because then in 12 Reasons it Should Be Illegal not to Treat Trans People we see this extreme issue of innequality alive and well in the US.

Such a reminder of how you have to try to tackle the whole system, the bigger system of patriarchy.